churr

Definitions

1. 1.A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.
2. 2.To make a churr, as a cockchafer. That's the churring of the nightjar. Hall Caine.
3. 3.To utter by churring.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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