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birl

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4 lettersPronunciation /bɝl/Part of speech verbSorted bilrStarts with BEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cause to spin

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English birlen.

Used in a sentence

  • About nine in the morning, in a burst of wintry sun between two squalls of hail, I had my first look of Holland - a line of windmills birling in the breeze.
  • 1906, Neil Munro, The Vital Spark, reprinted in 1958, Para Handy Tales, "I'll maybe no trouble you long, boys," he moaned lugubriously. "My heid's birling roond that fast that I canna even mind my own name two meenutes."
  • Affirmation of the desirability of birls is a key element throughout this online site even when complex issues of gender and sexual positioning are being worked through.

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