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▪ I. hurr, v. Obs. exc. dial.|hɜː(r), hʌrr| [Echoic: cf. harr.] intr. To make or utter a dull sound of vibration or trilling; to buzz as an insect; to snarl as a dog; to pronounce a trilled r.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P. R. xii. xii. (Tollem. MS.), By continuall flappynge of wynges he [the gnat] makeþ noyse in þe eyer, as þouȝe he hurred [quasi stridet]. c1440Promp. Parv. 254/1 Hurron, or bombon as bees..(K. hurryn, or bumbyn as ben)..bombizo. 1636B. Jonson Eng. Gram. (1640) 47 R is the Dogs Letter, and hurreth in the sound. 1638H. Adamson Muses Threnodie (1774) 72 And, where no hope of gain is, huffe and hur, And bark against the moon, as doth a cur. 1882Lanc. Gloss., Hurr, to snarl like a dog. Hence hurring vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 47 Thee skyes lowd rumbled with ringing thunderus hurring. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 73 Heare eke their hurring and their churring song. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xxxi. (1632) 402 A fagot flame with hurring sounds. ▪ II. † hurr, n. Obs. [f. prec. vb.] ‘A thin flat piece of wood, tied to a string and whirled round in the air’ (Halliwell). Also called hurre-bone.
1483Cath. Angl. 192/2 An Hurre bone (A. A Hurre), giraculum. 1500Ortus Voc. ibid., Giraculum, a chylde's whyrle, or a hurre. ▪ III. hurr obs. var. her pron. |