birler

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Queen Mary Jean, a lumberjack's daughter, has been an exhibition birler since she was six, barnstorms with carnivals and sportsmen's shows during vacations from Anderson Seminary, where she is studying to be a preacher.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cagey, cat-quick birler is called a Bangor Tiger, because of the legendary feats of Bangor-driving Maine loggers over 100 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your white-water birler is not an easy citizen to handle.

From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward

In the Cumberland dialect, a birler, or burler, is the master of the revels, who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes especial care that the drink be plentifully provided.

From Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Then it forgot its manners utterly and groaned when it made out that a sudden splash represented its favorite, while the indomitable Darrell still trod the quarter-deck as champion birler for the year.

From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Heydrick, Benjamin A.