#113: birling

9/30/2015

my son Drew birling
logging sports fan distracting
into drink falling

That's not Drew at left. Don't remember ever seeing him birling.

That's him on the right with his buddy Ira, back in his logging sports days!

DEFINITION of this 2-syllable noun

Chiefly Northern U.S. a game played by lumberjacks, in which each tries to balance longest on a floating log while rotating the log with the feet.

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