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tirled

tirled is the simple past and past participle of tirl.

Meaning of tirl

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.

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Questions about tirled

What is tirled the simple past and past participle of?
Tirled is the simple past and past participle of tirl.

Words near tirled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tirled (page history and authors); tirl (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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