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Shirl is not a common English word. The Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...

 gives four meanings. Two of these, "shrill" and "rough", re hair are very old and seem to have fallen out of use in Elizabethan times. Two usages remained extant at the beginning of the 20th century: "a trimming" (of hair, wool etc.) and a "slide on ice". Both are given as dialect, though the first was not always so. The second is a northern usage. Either might perhaps describe a torpedo attack; the Shorts were from the north of England

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