birring

Verb

birr (third-person singular simple present birrs, present participle birring, simple past and past participle birred)

1. (Scotland) To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.
   • if it is ordained that ye must forget him, ye will banish him from your mind the mair easily that ye ken nae mair o' him than ye do o' the bird that birrs past ye in the wood—that it has a bonny feather in its tail."1869, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII
2. (Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
   • His cowt grew reezy, its lang tail 'Twad swash, and lugs wad birr up, At length it cuist him, and did trail Him hame, by fit i'e stirrup,1824, “The Burning O' The Bible”, in John Mactaggart, editor, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 499

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