squir

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  1. To throw with a jerk. [Provincial English] I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames. Budgell, Spectator, No. 77. Boys squir pieces of tile or fiat stones across ponds or brooks to make what are denominated ducks and drakes. Halliwell.

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  1. Also squirr; a variant of *quir for whirr: see whirr.
 

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