shirl

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

shirl (countable and uncountable, plural shirls)

  1. (mineralogy) Archaic form of schorl.

Etymology 2

Verb

shirl (third-person singular simple present shirls, present participle shirling, simple past and past participle shirled)

  1. (UK, dialect, intransitive) To slide.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shirl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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