Lexicographical Neighbors of Birlinns
Literary usage of Birlinns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Britain's Sea Story, B.C. 55-A.D. 1805: Being the Story of British Heroism by Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance (1906)
"Sir Cloudesley Shovel said that an admiral who kept his fleet out after October
deserved to be shot. 2 birlinns: large barges used by chieftains in the ..."
2. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1907)
"And two swift birlinns were sent forth, which returned after many days to tell
of a land they had come upon, ' a land richer than ..."
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