Definition of "birle"

birle

verb
third-person singular simple present birles, present participle birling, simple past and past participle birled
1. (Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
  Quotations
  She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer.
  c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 68: "Young Hunting"
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
  Quotations
  They birled, they birled at Annies[sic] wake / The white bread and the wine, / And ere the morn at that same time / At his they birled the same.
  c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 73: "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet"