v. Sc. [Of obscure origin.] intr. To sprawl; to scramble.

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1821.  Liddle, Poems, 100. It kick’d and spurl’d sae Wi’ its feet i’ the air.

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1825.  in Jamieson, Suppl.

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1891.  J. Veitch, in Blackw. Mag., CL. 85/2. We mount up a steep crag…, slipping and spurling right over the ruined line of the Wall.

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