Usually means: Rapid whirring sound while flying.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. skirr: Merriam-Webster
  2. skirr: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skirr: Collins English Dictionary
  4. skirr: Wordnik
  5. skirr: Wiktionary
  6. skirr: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. skirr: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Skirr, skirr: Dictionary.com
  9. Skirr: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. skirr: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Skirr: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. skirr: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. skirr: FreeDictionary.org
  14. skirr: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skirr)

verb:  (intransitive) To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound
verb:  To make a whirring sound.
verb:  (transitive) To search about in, scour
verb:  to pass over quickly, skim
noun:  (UK, dialect) A tern.

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