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a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 885 (MED) For schotyng, for wyrstyllyng or oþer play..þas mekyll agayne þe saule are.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Adv. 19.2.3) i. l. 340 Coryne..Of Cornewell first, had grete liking To cast þai carllis in werstling.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 133 He hes att werslingis bein ane hunder.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 138 Our fallowschip exerce palestrale play,..Nakit worsling and strougling at nyse poynt.

1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 27 It is such poore soules who hath their ever-warsling mindes intrecated in a Laborinth of woes.

1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule 12 I cannot expresse what a worsling I finde within mee.

1631 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 165 Gif ony hurt was gottin be the persewer it proceidit of ane strugilling or warsilling and of ane fall gottin be the persewer in that warsilling quhairof he mycht be the caus himselff..of his awin hurt.

1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xxviii. 145 He got no rest in the night, with the warsling of troubled thoughts and pious fears.

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 211 He's a wirslin' bodie; he'll lay bye siller aff o' a place it ony ither ane wid stairve on.

1899 Sketch 30 Aug. 244/2 This ‘warsling on’ of his clothes is an operation all the more difficult, as the Kaiser..is practically but a one-armed man.

1900 C. Murray Hamewith 36 A warslin' thrang o' mortals still she spies, Wha strive an' fecht an' spurn the grassy howe.

1935 W. Soutar Poems in Scots 48 Back and fore be the caller burn The warslin' worms and wud pass.

2000 B. Leeming Scots Haiku II 8 Warslin corbies stertit bi a fliein news.

?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. 116 Makkin guid uiss o the structurs o soshietie ti wun our juist rewaird frae our warsillins.