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birling
[ bur-ling ]
noun
Chiefly Northern U.S.
- a game played by lumberjacks, in which each tries to balance longest on a floating log while rotating the log with the feet.
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There was sea salt in the air, and sleepless seagulls were birling in the darkness overhead.
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Already he had mastered the rudiments of “birling,” and could run across floating logs, if not gracefully at least with slight chance of a ducking.
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About nine in the morning, in a burst of wintry sun between two squalls of hail, I had my first look of Holland—a line of windmills birling in the breeze.
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Why was the sympathy of the crowd with Jimmy Powers in the birling match?
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"That means," he said, "that some of their great men are birling at the wine within, and will little like to be disturbed."
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