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Recent Examples of birlThere was sea salt in the air, and sleepless seagulls were birling in the darkness overhead.—Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 Another, unable to reach dry land, dug his spiked boots into a slippery timber and birled downriver.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019 In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
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Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
That night, Noonan caroused at the hotel bar with James Collopy, the district superintendent of the civil-aviation board.
Image Image In the village of Midsomer Norton, about 50 miles away, 100 people or so turned out for a community event to wassail three small apple trees in the local park.
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Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
This drink was often used as part of wassailing in England.
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BHG Test Kitchen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 June 2023
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