单词 | birle |
释义 | † birlen. Obsolete. One who pours out drink; a cupbearer, butler. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > cup-bearer birleOE cupper14.. versora1483 cup-bearer1483 tankard-bearer?1518 copper1528 tankard-yeoman1563 gobleter1623 pincern1623 pocillatora1659 tankard-womana1667 OE Beowulf 1161 Byrelas sealdon win of wunderfatum. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xl. 20 Þæra byrla ealdor. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14053 Acc wel þe birrless wisstenn. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12278 Beduer þas kinges hæȝe birle [c1300 Otho borle, and so always]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). birlev. Obsolete except dialect. 1. To draw or pour out (drink, to or for any one). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] birleOE drenchc1000 shenchOE adrenchc1275 to drink to1297 tap1401 skinkc1405 propinec1450 brince?1567 liquor1575 to do right1600 dram1770 butler1826 jerk1868 to set up1880 drink1883 bartend1948 to break out1962 OE Guthlac B 870 Nænig monna wæs of þam sigetudre siþþan æfre godes willan þæs georn, ne gynnwised, þæt he bibugan mæge þone bitran drync þone Eue fyrn Adame geaf, byrelade bryd geong. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15396 Þuss birrleþþ defell & hiss þeww Aȝȝ werrse & werrse drinnchess. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 43 Þei drinke..and birlen it to oþere men. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 292 Sche byrlyd whyt wyne and Rede. c1510 J. Skelton Elynour Rummyng 268 Dame Elynour entrete To byrle them of the best. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij Baccus birlyng the wyne, whiche by the conduyetes in therth ranne to all people. 1851 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 3 204/2 ‘Told me to burl out the beer..and I burled out a glass and gave it to him.’ 1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 40 ‘Birl out th' beer.’ 2. To supply or ply with drink. ΚΠ a1225 Anc. R. 226 He þeonne mid tet, birleð him ilome. a1325 Metr. Hom. (1863) 121 Than birles he thaim wit waikere [win]. 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 43 She birled him wi' the ale and wine. 3. intransitive. To carouse; transitive to drink and pass (the cup). (A modern pseudo-archaism.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > circulate drink troll1575 walk1581 to push the bottle about1697 send1770 birlea1800 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely wassailc1300 waught?a1513 quaff1520 to drink (it) all outa1522 bibblea1529 quaught1530 to set cock on the hoopa1535 quass1549 tipple1560 swillc1563 carouse1567 to drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse1567 troll-the-bowl1575 to take one's rousea1593 pot1622 tope1668 toot1676 compotate1694 to soak one's clay (or face)1704 birlea1800 to splice the mainbrace1805 jollify1830 brimmer1838 to give it a bit of a nudge1966 nudge1966 a1800 Ballad Sir P. Spens i Hie sits oor king in Dumfermline, Sits birlin at the wine. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 244 Birling the brown bowl wi' the fowler and the falconer. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. i. 14 The twa loons that did the deed birling and drinking wi' him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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