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tirl

tirl verb: to quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.

Verb

tirl (third-person singular simple present tirls, present participle tirling, simple past and past participle tirled)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To make a rattling or clattering sound by twirling or shaking.
    • to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door
  3. (transitive) To twist.
  4. (transitive) To strip; to unroof.

Noun

tirl (plural tirls)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A vibration.
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A substitute for a trundle wheel or lantern wheel in a mill.

tirl meaning in Bengali

tirl in Bengali

কাঁপা, ঘর্ষণ, কম্পন হওয়া, ঘুরে যাওয়া, মোচড় দেওয়া, উন্মুক্ত করা

Forms of tirl

Verb
third-person singular presenttirls
present participletirling
past participletirled
pasttirled
Noun
pluraltirls

Origin of tirl

From archaic trill (“spin, twiddle”), probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl.

Words that rhyme with tirl

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Questions about tirl

What does tirl mean?
Tirl means to quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.
What is tirl in Bengali?
Tirl in Bengali is কাঁপা, ঘর্ষণ, কম্পন হওয়া. See Tirl meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tirl?
Tirl can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of tirl?
The past tense of tirl is tirled.

Words near tirl in the dictionary

  1. tiring-rooms
  2. tiringly
  3. tiringness
  4. tirings
  5. Tiriyó
  6. tirl
  7. tirled
  8. tirlie-whirlie
  9. tirlie-whirlies
  10. tirling
  11. tirls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tirl (page history and authors); tirl (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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