▪ I. gurl, n. Now Sc.
(gɜːl)
[Cf. gurl v.]
A growl; boisterous or rough weather.
| 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 85 A voice that was rather a gurl, like an old hound gnawing a bone, than a human sound. 1790 A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 84 Poor starvin' dogs Glower fierce wi' hungry gurle. 1826 Galt Last of Lairds iv. 32 He had a pleasure..in gripping me by the coat-neck, and shaking me wi' a gurl. 1880 in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets I. 325 He's houfft till the gurl gaed past. |
▪ II. gurl, a. Sc.
Also 6 gurll, gourl.
[Cf. gurl v.; also grill a.]
Of weather: Boisterous, rough.
| 1513 Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 58 For gurll [v.r. gourl] weddir growyt bestis haire. 1719 Ramsay Fam. Ep. Answ. iii. 27 When northern blasts the ocean shurl, And gars the heights and hows look gurl. |
▪ III. gurl, v. Now Sc.
(gɜːl)
Also 4 gurle.
[Echoic; cf. grolling, growl.]
1. intr. To rumble, growl; (of the wind) to roar, howl.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 249 As a mete in a man, þat is not defied bifore, makiþ mannis bodi to gurle [v.r. groule]. 1587 L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 62 The gurling or rumbling in the belly, and noyse in his guts. 1791 A. Wilson Pack in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 33 Fearfu' winds loud gurled. 1832–53 J. Ballantine in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. ii. 90 Whaur the rain fa's in floods, an' the wind gurls chill. 1885 Standard 2 Apr. 5/2 They [sc. otter-dogs] ‘gurl’ and fight amongst themselves. |
† 2. = gurgle v. 2. Obs. rare—1.
But perh. gurled is a misprint for gurgled; if so this is the earliest instance of gurgle v. 2.
| 1635 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virgin 28 The blood that at thy appearing gurled out of this wound, both convicts thee, and requires at my hands Iustice. |