chirlv.
/tʃəːl/, U.S. /tʃərl/, Scottish English /tʃɪrl/ Scottish.
To warble, to utter a long note with modulation; sometimes, to emit a low melancholy sound.
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1818 Ballad in Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Oct. 327 (Jam.) The laverock chirl't his cantie sang.
18.. J. Hogg Hunt of Eildon 323 (Jam.) The chirling echoes went and came.
1838 J. Struthers Poet. Tales 78 Short syne ye took a chirlin fit.
Derivatives
chirl n.
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c1600 A. Montgomerie Sonn. li. 3 Thy chivring chirlis, vhilks changinglie thou chants.
1849 Zoologist 7 2527 [Crossbills]..commence a fretful, unhappy chirl, not unlike the Redpole's.
1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 3 His voice..had a kind of musical warble (‘chirl’ we vernacularly called it).
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