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