tirln.1
/təːl/, U.S. /tərl/, Scottish English /tɪrl/ Chiefly Scottish.† 4. ? A whirled or circular pattern. rare.† 5. A name of some disease: editors suggest St. Vitus's dance. Obsolete. rare.
1. A round or turn at doing anything; a slight experience or trial of something; a touch, taste.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > an experiment > a (slight) trial of something
taste1390
smatch1628
tirlc1660
shy1824
the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action
turnc1230
heatc1380
touch1481
pluck?1499
push?1560
bout1575
yoking1594
pull1667
tirl1718
innings1772
go1784
gamble1785
pop1839
run1864
gang1879
inning1885
shot1939
c1660 J. Guthrie in Union Mag. Oct. (1902) 463 Many a man has touched the cross, and it has scalded him; and he has given it a tirl and letten it lie.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 32 She was tyred with his speeches; She would farr rather had a tirrle, Of an Aquavitae Barrel.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 16 The young Swankies on the Green Took round a merry Tirle.
1720 A. Ramsay Poems 349 King Eol grant a tydie Tirl.
1755 R. Forbes Shop-bill in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 40 I hae..some for those that tak a tirle amo' the sheets.
2. A revolving piece of mechanism like a turnstile; a wheel of some kind. dialect.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > other parts
tumbler1624
tirl1691
pullback1703
gadget1885
loop1912
doojigger1927
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > other wheels
well wheel1535
rundle1611
rown-wheel1688
walking wheel1730
side wheel1731
tirl1793
rigger1797
idle wheel1805
vane1842
Gypsy1850
air wheel1860
wind-wheel1867
sprocket1879
friction-wheel1888
Geneva wheel1891
idler1899
1691 W. B. New Hist. Rom. Conclave ii. 7 In several parts of the Wall of the Conclave, there are seven Rote, or Holes with Turles in them, just as there are in Nunneries, wherein the Victuals are put in from without, and turned round to be Received within.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 193–4 The tirl occupies the same situation under this mill, as the trundles in the inner part of an ordinary mill; and it performs the same office. The diameter of the tirl is always equal to that of the millstones.
1883 W. Yorks. Gloss. Tirl, the wheel of a [wheel] barrow.
3. An act of twirling; a twirl, whirl. dialect.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > twirling > an act of
twirl1598
tirl1790
1790 D. Morison Poems 6 The temper pin she gi'es a tirl, An' spins but slow.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > curves or spirals
oundingc1390
bendc1535
wrall1540
tirl1597
scroll1611
gadroon1694
scroll-work1739
queen's pattern1769
rinceau1773
cartouchea1776
curlicue1844
wave1845
scrollage1847
ogee1851
rope border1855
gadrooning1856
rope-work1866
vermiculation1866
ringing1885
scrollery1892
twirligig1902
C-scroll1904
trumpet spiral1936
trumpet pattern1937
koru1938
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 320 With dansing, and glansing, in tirlis [v.r. tirle] dornik champ.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea
tirla1585
St. Vitus's dance1621
chorea1686
St. Vitus's jig1702
leaping ague1792
St. Vitus's fit1836
dancing-mania1877
Huntington's disease1889
Sydenham's chorea1892
dancing-plague-
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 321 The phtiseik, þe twithȝaik, þe tittis, and þe tirrillis [v.r. The tisicke, the toothaike, the tites and tirles].
Compounds
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > truckle-bed
truckle-bed1459
tirl-bed1487
trundle-bed1542
wheel-bed1556
trundle bedstead1590
truckle1637
truckle bedstead1895
rollaway1958
1487–8 in 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1870) App. 101/2 in Parl. Papers (C. 55) XXXIX. 543 iii. staynding beddes, iii. tirle beddes well bothomed.
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tirln.2
Scottish.
An act of tirling (see tirl v.3 3); loosely, a tap or tapping. Also as int.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > rattling
brattle?a1513
rattle?a1513
brittle-brattle1535
rattling1555
rottle1680
brattling1771
tirl1808
rittle-rattle1837
rickle1867
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tirl,..a sharp tap or stroke.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 531 The slight tirl on the lozen, or tap at the window.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 19 Whan, hark! upon the gowden door, Tirl! comes a rap.
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tirln.3
Scottish.
A vibration, tremor.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > vibrancy
tirl1882
vibrancy1895
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Tirl, Tirle, a vibration, the act of vibrating.
1894 ‘H. Haliburton’ Furth in Field iv. 183 A good woman..with a pathetic ‘tirl’ in her tone.
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tirlv.1
Scottish.† 1. intransitive. To pluck at; esp. to pluck at the strings of a harp, or the like, so as to cause them to sound. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > pluck
tirl?a1500
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1414 in Poems (1981) 57 Sum [of the mice] tirlit at the campis off his [sc. the lion's] beird, Sum spairit not to claw him on the face.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 93 Tak harpe in hand..Tyrle on the ten stringit Instrument.
2. transitive. To pluck (a tense string, etc.) so as to cause vibration.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > pluck
harp1629
twitch1669
plunk1808
pick1848
pluck1873
tirl1882
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) He tirled the strings. [Clydesdale.]
1894 R. Reid in Poets of Dumfriesshire (1910) x. 305 That queer wild cry frae the gurly sky Can tirl my heart-strings still.
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tirlv.2
Scottish and northern dialect.
1. transitive. To roll or turn back, pull or strip off (a garment or the clothes from a person, his back, etc.; the bedclothes from a bed; the thatch or roof from a house, stack, etc.).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip off (a covering)
shredc1000
tirvec1300
to turn offc1390
stripc1430
tirr1584
tirl1603
skin1659
1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 44 Off his coate thay tirlit be the croun.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 33 The wind blaws loud and tirls our strae.
1826 L. Proudlock Poet. Wks., Cuddie & Crawing Hen 43 Winds loud blew, wi' fury flew, And threat to tirl its riggin'.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 211 Nae thing was prosperin' there and thrivin', But tirlin' roofs and rafter-rivin'.
1835 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches (1837) V. 275 He was tied to a tree, and his shirt tirled over his head.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down at Tirl, thirl The wun' thirled the thatch las' nicht.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) To ‘tirl the bed-claes’, to strip off the bed-clothes.
2.
a. To uncover by rolling back the covering; to strip (a person) naked; to unroof (a building): often tirl naked, tirl bare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)]
unlidOE
abareOE
discovera1382
uncoverc1410
unwlapa1425
unmantle1598
dismantle1604
uncowl1611
unface1611
unquilt1611
uncase1643
uncap1688
tirl naked1721
1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence x Suppose then they should tirle ye bare, And gar ye fike, E'en learn to thole.
1786 R. Burns Poems 56 Whyles, on the strong-wing'd Tempest flyin, Tirlan the kirks.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 198 Our folk had tirled the dead dragoons as bare as bawbees.
1843 J. Nicholson Hist. & Tradit. Tales 120 Wi' hideous yells she filled the air, And tirled Simon's cottage bare.
b. To uncover (the peat in a moss, the stone in a quarry, etc.) by removing the surface soil, overlying earth, clay, etc.; to lay bare (anything) by removing its covering.
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1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles xiv. 208 After removing the surface soil with the roots of the heath or ling growing on it (called the tirling of the moss).
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 218 ‘If your honours are thinking of tirling the floor,’ said old Edie, ‘..I would begin below that muckle stane.’
1912 N.E.D. at Tirl Mod. Sc. About 1845 a new section of Denholm Hill Freestone Quarry was tirled.
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tirlv.3
Now chiefly Scottish and northern dialect.
I. Senses relating to turning or circulating.
1. † b. ? To cause to move; to circulate; in phrase tirl on the berry, ? pass round the wine. Cf. troll-the-bowl at troll v. 6. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To turn; to cause to rotate or revolve; to twirl, spin, twiddle; to turn over (and over); to move by rolling; = trill v.1 1. Also, to turn over rapidly (the leaves of a book).
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)]
turnOE
trillc1386
gyrec1420
rote?1533
tirl1543
to turn round1555
revolve1559
circumvert1578
circumgyre1635
circumrote1635
circumgyrate1647
circumvolve1647
veera1649
twist1769
rotate1777
sphere1820
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iv. f. 136v/2 He must guyde and tyrle ye sayd nedle toward the pannicle called cornea, tyl he touche ye myddes of the apple of the eye, & a lytle more.
1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue lxii. sig. H3v Like Sisyphus I labour still To turle a rowling stoane against the hill.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation Errata sig. Ffv That rowling stone of Innouation, was neuer so turled and tumbled, as since those busie limmes began to rowse, and besturre them.
1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie v. 57 O how they bend their backs and fingers tirle!
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. (E.D.S.) Tirl, v., to turn over, as leaves in a book.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tirl,..to turn over the leaves of a book quickly.
1844 Ayrshire Wreath 155 We had a tough game at tirlin' the trencher.
a1869 C. Spence From Braes of Carse (1898) 72 Soft wind sighing o'er the waste, Tirling the seared leaves.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Tirled heels up’, suddenly overturned or turned inside out.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
roist1563
roist1574
revel1580
domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Bijv Make rome syrs and let vs be mery with huffa galand synge tyrll on the bery, And let the wyde worlde wynde.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. D.j Heigh derie derie, Trill on the berie.]
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.i And we shall make merye and synge tyrle on the berye.
2. intransitive. To turn over; to rotate in moving or falling; to roll, whirl.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll
trenda1000
trendlea1225
rollc1405
overwhelma1425
windle1487
trill1531
volve1568
troll1581
tirl1824
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Cankert Afore she tirl'd owre [= died] my prayers war fervant.
1860 Blackie Lyr. Poems, Jenny Geddes vii Stool after stool, like rattling hail, came tirling through the air.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) Slates are said to ‘come tirlin doon’ when they are stripped off in a gale.
II. Senses relating to a rattling sound.
3. intransitive. To make a rattling noise by turning or moving something rapidly to and fro or up and down.
a. In the phrase to tirl at (†upon) the pin, to make such a noise on some part of the gate or door, in order to gain admittance; also to tirl at the latch, at the sneck.An old phrase of ballad poetry, which in the 19th cent. was taken up and used by Scott, and others after him. Now generally identified by antiquaries with the use of the appendage called the risp and ring (risp n.2 2), formerly used for this purpose. (Cf. tinkle v.1 2c, Bob Norice ix, ‘When he came to Lord Barnet's castel He tinklet at the ring’.) But in this identification there are difficulties; a risp is not a ‘pin’, nor has it any resemblance to a ‘pin’, in any known sense of the word; the pin of a door was the latch or handle which was ‘lifted’ or ‘turned’ to open the door: see quots. under pin n.1 1b; whereas the ‘risp’ was a fixed appendage which could neither be lifted nor turned, having no connection with the latch or door-handle. Hence it would seem that ‘to tirl at the pin’ was to make a noise by moving the latch up and down rapidly. It is possible that the ‘risp and ring’ was a later device, which came to be erroneously considered as the apparatus by which the ‘tirling at the pin’ was performed.
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the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > knock at a door
to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15..
beat1608
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > knock at (a door)
to tirl at (upon) the pin15..
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle
rattlec1330
hoursch?a1400
rottlea1400
ruttlea1400
ricklec1400
to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15..
clitter1530
ruckle1700
jar1735
knock1869
ratchet1907
c1500 Songs, Carols, etc. 111 Hogyn cam to bowers dore, He tryld vpon þe pyn for love, Hum, ha, trill go bell..Vp she rose & lett hym yn.]
15.. Ld. Beichan in Ballads & Songs (Percy Soc.) 90 When she came to Lord Beichan's gate, She tirled softly at the pin.
?16.. in Ramsay's Tea-t. Misc. (1762) 324 Ay he tirled at the pin, But answer made she none.
?17.. Pr. Robt. ix, in Minstr. Scot. Bord. (1869) 381 O he has run to Darlinton, And tirled at the pin.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 230 There cam..first, pride, then malice, then revenge, then false witness; and murther tirl'd at the door-pin if he cam na ben.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. i. 7 I hear my next door neighbour, Madame Adversity, tirling at the door pin.
1843 J. Nicholson Hist. & Tradit. Tales: Brownie o' Blodnoch 80 He tirled na lang, but he glided ben Wi' a dreary dreary hum.
1879 Perthshire in Bygone Days ii. v. 300 My Nannie will smile in her sleep and awake When I tirl at the latch of my door.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xiii She tirled fretfully at the pin, the servant-maid opened, and we went within.
b. transitive in to tirl the sneck. Scottish. rare. [Compare the name, Jonnie Tirlsneck, of the beadle in Scott's St. Ronan's Well.]
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > rattle
to shake upc1430
clitter1530
berattle1553
rattle1560
rail1770
to spring one's rattle1787
to tirl the sneck1800
1800 in R. Burns Wks. IV. 175 The Gaber-lunzie tirls my sneck And shivering tells his waefu' tale.
1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 44 They..tirl the neebors' snecks Like ouphes this nicht.
4. intransitive. Said of the sound of rain on a roof. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splatter
tirl1886
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 271 When the wind gowls in the chimney and the rain tirls on the roof.
Derivatives
ˈtirling-pin n. the ‘pin’ or latch on which persons ‘tirled’ for admittance: see above, sense 3.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > pin for gaining admittance
tirling-pin1875
1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred i The old Scotch tirling-pin—to be found now nowhere save in Fife—in lieu of bells and knockers.
1878 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. IX. 319 I have seen and tirled at an original tirling-pin on the chief entrance door of the vicarage house at Ovingham-on-Tyne.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Tirl Doors were formerly provided with a long, notched, iron handle on which a loose iron ring was hung. Instead of rousing the house with a knock, the caller tirled the ring up and down the notches of the ‘tirling pin’, or handle. [But this was the risp and ring.]
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tirlv.4
Scottish.
= thirl v.1, thirl v.3, thrill v.1
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate
through-shooteOE
borec1000
thirlc1000
through-boreOE
piercec1330
wimblec1440
entera1500
perforate1538
foraminate1599
terebrate1623
drilla1657
forate1657
pertund1657
perviate1657
drill1674
transforate1727
tirl1825
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > tremble or quiver
shiverc1250
tremble1303
lillec1400
tryllec1400
quaver?a1439
didderc1440
dadderc1450
whitherc1450
bever1470
dindle1470
brawl1489
quiver1490
quitter1513
flichter1528
warble1549
palsy1582
quoba1586
twitter1629
dither1649
verberate1652
quibble1721
dandera1724
tremulate1749
vibrate1757
dingle1787
nidge1803
tirl1825
reel1847
shudder1849
tremor1921
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tirl, to thrill.
a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 120 Tyrants will ne'er care a snuff for your word, Till ance they hear't tirl frae the point o' your sword.
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