A Scottish and N. English word meaning to walk with a limp, to hobble. Hence ‘hirpling’.
‘He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.’
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, p. 31
Hirple
A Scottish and N. English word meaning to walk with a limp, to hobble. Hence ‘hirpling’.
‘He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.’
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, p. 31
