Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To crowd; press together.
Wiktionary
- v. To crowd; to press together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To crowd; to press together.
Etymologies
- French serrer, Latin serrare, serare, from Latin sera a bar, bolt; akin to serere to join or bind together. See serries. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I have seen him,' Milo writes somewhere, 'ride into a serry of knights, singing, throwing up and catching again his great sword Gaynpayn; then, all of a sudden, stiffen as with a gush of sap in his veins, dart his head forward, gather his horse together under him, and fling into the midst of them like a tiger into a herd of bulls.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serry’.
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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Old words that deserve revival
anywhen, batten, bedswerver, blashy, brightsome, bub, busk, canty, chuff, croodle, cumberworld, draggle and 42 more...
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
Words gathered while reading works of Joseph Conrad.
gnomically, inarticulacy, emendation, palaver, aldermanic, calabash, opprobrious, immure, sea-reach, architecturally, mizzen, illusoriness and 60 more...
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Rare word with rare usage
"serry" is used in literary rarely. This word is very usable when we talk about public academically.
Tweets
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Prolagus Thank you mollusque! It can be found online, but apparently Garzanti Linguistica* doesn't like it.
(*One of the most complete English to Italian free online dictionaries) Sep 8, 2008
mollusque To press close together in ranks; now mostly used in the form serried. Sep 8, 2008
Prolagus This sounds like a passing unusual word, at least according to my English-Italian dictionary that did not list it. Sep 8, 2008