birler

Macnamara, a famous “white-water birler,” had met his fate in the breaking of a log-jam some years before.

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.

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

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.

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.