birle verb2 •(Scotland, no longer used) To pour a drink (for).She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer. — 1882 •(Scotland, no longer used) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.They birled, they birled at Annies wake / The white bread and the wine, / And ere the morn at that same time / At his they birled the same. — 1882 formsbirled · birling · birles