Citations:dirl

Noun: "a reverberation caused by a blow; a jolt"

 * 1901 — George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. (1901):
 * The fiercest joy of his life was the dirl that went up his arm as the steel thrilled to its own hard impact on the bone.

Verb: "to vibrate or shake"

 * 1790 — Robert Burns, "Tam O' Shanter":
 * To gie them music was his charge,
 * He screw'd the pipes and girt them skirl,
 * Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.
 * 1823 — John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize; or, The Covenanters, Oliver & Boyd (1823), page 80:
 * The kirk dirled to the foundations; the hearts of his hearers shook, till the earth of their sins was shaken clean from them; and he appeared in the whirlwind of inspiration, as if his spirit was mounting, like the prophet Elijah in a fiery chariot, immediately to the gates of heaven.
 * 1886 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Cassell and Company Ltd (1886), Chapter XXIX:
 * "Powder and your auld hands are but as the snail to the swallow against the bright steel in the hands of Alan," said the other. "Before your jottering finger could find the trigger, the hilt would dirl on your breast-bane."
 * 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, Chapter XII:
 * "He's not of this world," whispered my lord, "neither him nor the black deil that serves him. I have struck my sword throughout his vitals," he cried; "I have felt the hilt dirl on his breastbone, and the hot blood spirt in my very face, time and again, time and again!"
 * 1901 — Neil Munro, Doom Castle, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1901), page 190:
 * "I heard it. The knock was obvious; it dirled the very roof of the house. But it was not necessary to open at a knock at this time of morning; ye must have had a reason. Hospitality like that to half-a-dozen rogues from Arroquhar, who had already made a warm night for ye, was surely stretched a little too far. What did ye open for?"
 * 1902 — John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold, George H. Doran Company (1918), page 236:
 * Conviction of sin held him like a vice: he saw the lassie's death laid at his door, her face haunted him by day and night, and the word of the Lord dirled in his ears telling of wrath and punishment.
 * 1906 — Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Kid McGhie, Clark Company Limited (1906), page 114:
 * "Yes, me!" said the Knifer, knocking his clenched fist on the table so that the bottles danced and the glasses dirled and sang against each other.
 * 1911 — D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith, T. N. Foulis (1911), Chapter VI:
 * with carters bawling, "Ye yo, yellow sand, yellow sand," with mouths as wide as a barn-door, and voices that made the drums of your ears dirl, and ring again like mad;
 * 1932 — Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Jarrolds (1932), page 153:
 * He didn't hear, she waited, the house shook and dirled in another great flash, then Auntie was crying something, Chris stood as if she couldn't believe her own ears. Uncle Tam was feared at lightning, he wouldn't go out, she herself had best go back to her bed and wait for the morning.

Verb: "to tingle"

 * 1919 — J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy, Sands & Co. (1919), Chapter XIV:
 * "Man, Bawbie," he says, as I laid a reed herrin' on the brander for him, "there's naething affeks me like sojers merchin' to musik. It juist garrs my backbeen dirl, an' I canna sit still.  When they were doin' the merch-past this efternune, I had to up an' rin, or I wudda thrappilt some lad sittin' aside's.  That's the wey it affeks me.  I wudda gien a pound note juist to gotten a richt straucht-forrit fecht amon' them for half an 'oor."

Verb: "to pierce; to stab"

 * 1911 — D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith, T. N. Foulis (1911), Chapter VI:
 * They never felt the raptures that can dirl like darts through a man's soul from a woman's eye.
 * 1978 — Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson, Star Prince Charlie, Penguin (1978), page 104:
 * "I snaffled a mantle frae ane o' the lassies and later tauld this loon tae meet me in a dark place whaur he wad hear what was to his advantage. I'd sounded him oot afore and knew him for greedy. So I swarmed up his coat, seized his dirk, and stifled his yawp, the while I tauld him the steel wad dirl in his gullet did he gie trouble.

Verb: "to feel a pang of emotion"

 * 1886 — Amelia E. Barr, A Daughter of Fife, Dodd, Mead & Company (1886), page 219:
 * Her eyes were full of tears, and she looked once or twice at her brother in a way that made his heart dirl and ache; but she seemed to have resigned herself to his direction.