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▪ I. scurry, n.|ˈskʌrɪ|
[f. scurry v.]
1. The act of scurrying; a hurried movement, a rush; hurry, haste, bustle. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry n.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 356 Skurry, haste, impetuosity. 1830W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 437 It was such a treat after the hurry and scurry, and heartless bustle of London. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xix. 218 Belinda would usually come down in a scurry as she heard her mother's bell. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere v. 34 Unsuspecting gulls..took to wing with a tremendous scurry. 1910Q. Rev. Jan. 181 Far away from the scurry and the scramble..of London life.
2. Sporting. A short quick run or race on horseback.
1824W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LVII. 407 They travelled for adventures to the courts Of princes,—where at tournaments and skurries, Fame could be earn'd. 1829Sporting Mag. XXIV. 51 A very fast scurry with Lord Lonsdale the day before I left. 1885Field 17 Jan. 63/3 To wind up, a Flat Scurry, at catch weights, usually gave good sport. Ibid. 21 Feb. 219/3 Although only a few fields separate the two coverts,..more than one coat changed colour during the short scurry. 1898Daily News 6 Sept. 4/7 There are still at Doncaster too many of the five furlong scurries.
b. A run (made by an animal).
1865Daily Tel. 4 Mar., She [the hare] steals the help of a scurry up the ditch-bottom. 1874S. Beauchamp Grantley I. xiii. 247 [The dog] has his scurry..night and morning.
3. A fluttering assemblage (e.g. of birds, snow, foam) moving or driven rapidly through the air. † Also, a confused tangle of material.
1839Thackeray in Corsair 26 Oct. Stray Papers (1901) 177 Ladies at work at a frame in the midst of a great skurry and labyrinth of worsted balls, making slipper-tops [etc.]. 1858B. Taylor Northern Travel xxvi. 267 The birds circled overhead, or dropped like thick scurries of snow⁓flakes on the water. 1868Huntley Gloss. Cotswold Dial., Skurry, a flock in confused flight. 1873Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 123 That flight of baby angels caught up and whirled along in the wake of Gabriel like a skurry of autumn birds. 1880Blackmore May Anerley I. xviii. 312 A scurry of foam flew like pellets from the rampart.
Add:[2.] For def. read: Sporting. A short, quick run or race on horseback; in Show-jumping and Carriage-driving, a race ‘against the clock’, in which faults are counted as additional time penalties. Freq. attrib. (Later examples.)
1946M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 197 Scurry jumpers, this class is judged on time with one second added for each fault instead of the usual scoring. 1953Show Jumping (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 15 A result is always obtained after one round. (Such competitions are:- ‘Fault and Out’, ‘Relay’, ‘Take Your Own Line’ and ‘Scurry’.) 1973Country Life 18 Oct. 1136/2 The Eldonian Double Harness Scurry was the scene of a potentially dangerous accident when Gill Greig..was run over by the cart. 1986Horse Internat. May 31/2 The native breeds..have been very successful in every form of driving competition from cross country to scurry driving to concours d'elegance.
▪ II. scurry, v.|ˈskʌrɪ|
Also skurry.
[In sense 1, app. a back-formation from scurrier. In the current sense perh. taken from hurry-scurry, a reduplication of hurry v.]
†1. intr. ? To ride out as a ‘scurrier’. Obs.
1580North Plutarch, Annibal (1595) 1135 Then he commaunded the horsemen of the Numidians to scurrie to the trenches of the Romanes, to intise him to come to battell.
2. To go rapidly, move hurriedly. Often with advbs., as off, away.
1810Southey Kehama v. xiii, The wind..opens the clouds; Scatter'd before the gale, They skurry through the sky. 1839Thackeray Major Gahagan v, The ladies..skurried out of the apartment. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xvi. 219 They scurry away like rabbits when they see her coming. 1894Mrs. Anne Ritchie Chapters from Mem. ii. 14 Remembered events come cheerfully scurrying up one after another.
b. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry v.
1857Trollope Barchester T. xix. (1858) 145 Charlotte hurried and skurried about the room hither and thither, doing or pretending to do many things. 1889J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 140 How petty seems the work on which they are hurrying and skurrying.
3. trans. To cause to go hastily or move rapidly.
1850Thackeray Lett. 26 Feb., Off we set,..skurrying the policemen off the road. 1853F. W. Newman Odes of Horace i. xv, When the traitor-swain with ships of Ida Scurried o'er the wave his hostess Helen. 1892Garland Little Norsk iv. 32 The wind..scurried the snow south or east.
Hence ˈscurrying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1862Thornbury Turner I. 75 A view of flustered and scurrying fishing-boats in a gale of wind. 1869‘Wat. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xix, A hurrying, scurrying crowd of horses. 1878Tennyson Q. Mary iii. v, The scurrying of a rat, Affrighted me. 1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 93 The scurrying drops came thicker and thicker. 1885Harper's Mag. Feb. 398/2 There was a sound of skurrying steps. |