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  • Mony a warsle he has had for that puir lassie — I am thinking he petitions mair for her than for yoursell, hinny; for what can he plead for you but just to wish you the blessing ye deserve?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • But we 'll warsle out through them, and scorn to despair;

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • [Footnote 4: The Scotch _warsle_ would be perfect.]

    Rampolli George MacDonald 1864

  • --- Mony a warsle he has had for that puir lassie --- I am thinking he petitions mair for her than for yoursell, hinny; for what can he plead for you but just to wish you the blessing ye deserve?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • It was a heart-healing meeting of many of the godly, which he holds weekly in the season; and we had such a warsle of the spirit among us that the like cannot be told.

    The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

  • -- Mony a warsle he has had for that puir lassie -- I am thinking he petitions mair for her than for yoursell, hinny; for what can he plead for you but just to wish you the blessing ye deserve?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Or are we to bide wi 'them, an warsle aboot holy words till we tyne a' stamach for holy things? "

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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  • Scots - wrestle.

    Some gapin', glowrin' countra laird

    May warsle for your favour;

    May claw his lug, and straik his beard,

    And hoast up some palaver:

    My bonie maid, before ye wed

    Sic clumsy-witted hammers,

    Seek Heaven for help, and barefit skelp

    Awa wi' Willie Chalmers.

    - Robert Burns, 'Willie Chalmers'.

    January 28, 2009

  • So...not related to arsle.

    January 28, 2009