Pirl

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pirl \Pirl\, v. t. [Cf. {Purl}.]
     1. To spin, as a top.
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     2. To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.
        [1913 Webster]



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  PIRL
       
          Pattern Information Retrieval Language.
       
          A language for {digraph} manipulation, embeddable in {Fortran}
          or {ALGOL}, for {IBM 7094}.
       
          ["PIRL - Pattern Information Retrieval Language",
          S. Berkowitz, Naval Ship Res Dev Ctr, Wash DC].
       
          (1994-11-29)