Meaning of birle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To pour a drink (for).
   Scotland, obsolete
2. To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
   Scotland, obsolete

Examples

“c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 68: "Young Hunting", She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer.”

“c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 73: "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet", They birled, they birled at Annies wake / The white bread and the wine, / And ere the morn at that same time / At his they birled the same.”

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