birles

Verb

birle (third-person singular simple present birles, present participle birling, simple past and past participle birled)

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