A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1633
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Quhorle, n. Also: quorill. Also north-eastern form: forl. [Late ME and e.m.E. whorlwyl, whorwil, whorle (Prompt. Parv.), qworle (Cath. Angl.), also wharwyl, wharle, appar. varr. of whirl; cf. Quhirl(l n. and v. Cf. also MDu. worvel, warvel, wervel; also Quhorle-bone, Quhorle-wynd.] A whorl: ? chiefly, the perforated stone or lead disc placed on a spindle as a makeweight in spinning by hand. —c1500 Makculloch MS xiii 7.
Hoc vertubrum, a quorill 15.. Lord Fergus' Gaist 42.
Ane botene and ane brechame And ane quhorle maid of lame 15.. Ib. 75. 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 190.
Scho is indytit to haiff bevitched Gilbert Makime … with ane spendil, ane rok, and ane forl1633 Black Bk. Taymouth 389.
For breaking of the glaisin windowis … and melting of the leid of them to be quhorles
