girned

Shamie started the saw he had borrowed and it whined and girned, echoing round the small wood.

Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

When that he had said these wordis, the horned Bischopis and thare complices cryed, and girned [413] with thare teith, saying, "See ye not what colouris he hath in his speich, that he may begile us, and seduce us to his opinioun."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

"Go down, go down, ye beast, if ye never come up," he girned, and flung the man from him to the earth, where he lay.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Later on in the day, after we had had a meal, he sat at the passage-way and eyed us, and the dog girned and showed his teeth.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

"The hell take you," he girned through clenched teeth, and his knife left his hip.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

She would have thrown it from her that time, for she was like a quick-tempered boy, but at her angry movement the old dog girned at me, and the rumble o 'his growl made us look, and there he was ready to spring at me, and it makes me laugh yet; for Mirren, my own quick-tempered lass, fondled my hand at her waist to quieten him.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the Laird’s wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi’ pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep’s-head between a pair of tangs—an ill-faur’d, fearsome couple they were.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red-laced coat, and the laird’s wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi’ pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep’s head between a pair of tangs—an ill-faur’ed, fearsome couple they were.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

Man, a've often girned that he sud fecht awa for us a ', and maybe dee before he kent that he hed githered mair luve than ony man in the Glen.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

Man, a've often girned that he sud fecht awa for us a ', and maybe dee before he kent that he hed githered mair luve than ony man in the Glen.

A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2 Ian Maclaren 1878