dial. Also 9 snirl, snerl. [Cf. SNARL v.1]

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  Some other senses in northern dial. and Sc. are recorded in the Eng. Dial. Dict.

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  1.  trans. To ruffle or disturb.

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1719.  Ramsay, 3rd Answ. Hamilton, vii. When northern blasts the ocean snurl.

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  2.  To turn up (the nose) in disdain.

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a. 1833.  R. Anderson, Cumb. Ballads (1881), 138. She snurl’d up her neb.

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1873.  in Swaledale Gloss., 24/1.

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