English Dictionary
birl
v 1: cause a floating log to rotate by treading [syn: {birle}]
2: cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: {whirl}, {spin}, {twirl}]
English Computing Dictionary
PIRL
Pattern Information Retrieval Language.
A language for {digraph} manipulation, embeddable in {Fortran}
or {ALGOL}, for {IBM 7094}.
["PIRL - Pattern Information Retrieval Language",
S. Berkowitz, Naval Ship Res Dev Ctr, Wash DC].
(1994-11-29)