Skirr

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 30, 2012

skirr \skur\, verb:

1. To go rapidly; fly; scurry.
2. To go rapidly over.

noun:
1. A grating or whirring sound.

Looking up, he perceived, to his horror, the figure of a man which seemed to skirr along the surface of the water...
-- Ambrose Marten, The Stanley Tales

If they'll do neither, we will come to them, and make them skirr away as swift as stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry V

Skirr is related to the word scour, which comes from the Old Norse word skur meaning "shower."

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