shirr

• The trees on the hills behind the Castle were bending and bowing; and not merely around the boat, but far as could be seen the surface of the ancient channel was a-shirr and a-shatter under beating of advance gusts And now the mouth of the Sweet Waters, shallowed by a wide extended osier bank, came into view; and the Castle was visible from base to upper merlon, the donjon, in relief against the blackened sky, rising more ghostly than ever. —  The Prince of India — Volume 01
• The veil was secured to the hood by a simple shirr string of elastic. —  The Motor Girls
• _Shirred Eggs. _ -- To shirr an egg break it into a saucer or any small dish that has been well greased. —  Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
• With gasping breath I have sneered at death, and have mocked at a shell's swift shirr, —  Cross Roads
• White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! —  Moby Dick, or, the whale

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