“For faut o’ wise fouk feuls sit on binks.”—Proverb.
Birl, S, to drink in conviviality; also to spend money in drinking.
“When they were at the supper set
An’ birlin’ at the wine.”
Ballad—Young Huntin.
“She took me in, she set me doon,
An’ hecht to keep me lawin’ free;
But, cunning carlin’ that she was,
She gar’t me birl my bawbee.”
Song—Andro’ wi’ his cutty gun.