Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of quirl
She next complained of a quirling pain, that wou’d last three or four hours with the utmost violence.
1755, Sarah Browne, “A letter from Mrs. Holt's sister to Benjamin Franklin, Esq., describing the same case”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 11 more example
She thought there was something alive in her side, for (to use her own expression) she said she plainly perceived a tickling and quirling in it...The stomach had hitherto received, retained, and digested the food tolerably well, but was now affected with an incessant heaving and nausea, unless now and then relieved by strong opiates or large draughts of spirituous liquors; there was likewise the same sensation of tickling and quirling in it that had been before perceived in the side.
1754, Thomas Bond, “An account of a worm bred in the liver”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 1
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