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English
Etymology 1
Noun
shirl (countable and uncountable, plural shirls)
- (mineralogy) Archaic form of schorl.
Etymology 2
Etymology
Apparently related to German dialectal schurren, to slide upon ice.[1]
Verb
shirl (third-person singular simple present shirls, present participle shirling, simple past and past participle shirled)
- (UK, dialect, intransitive) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)To slide.
Lacking skates, she shirled across the frozen river to the far bank.
1856 [1826], Robert Southey, edited by John Wood Warter, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Letter of January 25, 1826, page 525:My girls are good shirlers—an exercise you have not heard of in the South. Shirling is neither sliding nor skating, but a sort of intermediate motion, performed in the common clogs of this country, which have irons on them like horse-shoes.
1898 May 17, “Lakeland Words”, in Penrith Observer:Ther's a grand shirl on t' pond.
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