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chirl, v. Sc.|tʃɜːl|
[Imitative of the sound: see chirr v.]
To warble, to utter a long note with modulation; sometimes, to emit a low melancholy sound.
1818Ballad in Edinb. Mag. Oct. 327 (Jam.) The laverock chirl't his cantie sang. 18..Hogg Hunt of Eildon 323 (Jam.) The chirling echoes went and came. 1838J. Struthers Poetic Tales 78 Short syne ye took a chirlin fit.
Hence chirl n.
c1600Montgomerie Sonn. li. 3 Thy chivring chirlis, vhilks changinglie thou chants. 1850Zoologist VII. 2527 [Crossbills]..commence a fretful, unhappy chirl, not unlike the Redpole's. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. C.'s Lett. I. 3 His voice..had a kind of musical warble (‘chirl’ we vernacularly called it). |