lick the birse

English

Verb

lick the birse (third-person singular simple present licks the birse, present participle licking the birse, simple past and past participle licked the birse)

  1. (Scotland, historical) To draw a hog's bristle through the mouth, as part of a ceremony of citizenship in Selkirk.
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