(v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
(v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: National Trust At Birling Gap, Sussex, Jane Cecil, the trust's general manager for the South Downs, described the rate of erosion as breathtaking, forcing the demolition of part of the visitor facilities.
(2) At Birling Gap in Sussex there has been seven years' worth of cliff erosion in two months and Formby on the Sefton coast in the north-west lost eight metres of sand dune in just one afternoon.
(3) The pituitary reserve of GH, ACTH, TSH, LH, and FSH was determined in seven prepubertal birls suffering from congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylation defect and under treatment with cortisone acetate.
(4) Storm damage at Birling Gap on the East Sussex coast.
(5) At Birling Gap we have designed a café and shop that can be deconstructed and moved back away from the cliff edge as it erodes.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Benn’s speech would have father ‘birling’ in his grave, says Alex Salmond Presuming to insert themselves into private family dynamics about which they know nothing and which are even less of their business, they are people with whom no one remotely civilised could stand to spend any time, people so self-righteously tin-eared that they imagine this passes for having a point.
Pirl
Definition:
(v. t.) To spin, as a top.
(v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tests on sensitized guinea pigs (pirl bright white strain) with flowers of chrysanthemum as well as with the two sesquiterpene lactones parthenolide and alantolactone, derived from different Composite species, gave positive patch test reactions.