Also 6 tireli, 7 tirlery. [Echoic. Cf. OF. turelu a comic or burlesque refrain, and see TIRRA-LIRRA.] a. The note of the lark; = TIRRA-LIRRA. b. A representation of a bugle note or cadence.
1596. Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 24. Even as the Larke … Mounteth her basinetted head on high,… Quav’ring full quaintlie forth her Tireli.
c. 1600[?]. in E. E. Lyrics (1907), 255. Tirlery lorpin, the laverock sang.
1847. Mary Howitt, Ballads, 130. And the bugles blew with a ‘tira lee’! As they came by the way.
