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▪ I. birsle, v. Sc.
(ˈbəs(ə)l, Sc. ˈbɪrs(ə)l)
Also 6 brissle, brissil, byrsle, 7 north. dial. brusle.
[Derivation and etymological form uncertain: the mod.Sc. is birsle, but 16th c. Eng. had brissill, and 17th c. north. dial. brusle.]
trans. To scorch (the surface) with radiant heat; to toast hard; also fig. Hence ˈbirsled ppl. a.
1513Douglas æneis vii. xiii. 36 Feill echirris of corn thik growing, Wyth the new sonnys heit byrsyllit. Ibid. vii. ix. 109 Blunt styngis of the byrsillit [1553 brissillit] tre. 1691Ray North Co. Wds., Brusle, to dry; as ‘the sun brusles the hay’; and ‘brusled pease,’ parch'd pease. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 137 He was sorry he got not the old dog's bones to birsle in the flames. 1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. 132 Than ye maun sit an' birsle yoursels afore the fire at hame. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi. (1859) 409, I trained best on birsled peas and whiskey.
▪ II. ˈbirsle, n. Sc.
[f. prec.]
‘A hasty toasting or scorching’ (Jam.); the toasted or scorched surface (of a potato, etc.). |