Serry

Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 29, 2011

serry \SER-ee\, verb:

To crowd closely together.

Serry means to crowd and is spelled serry.
-- Mildred Colvin, Missouri Brides

To keep unsettled the questions upon which these united with the Liberation Society, —accustom a powerful contingent to work together with “political Dissenters,”—to serry friends and foes into hostile phalanx, —to accept battle on a week ground where it is only possible to rally half the forces...
-- S. Wellington, The Spectator, Vol. 6

Serry is from the Middle Frenceh serré which was the past participle of serrer meaning “to press tightly together.”

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