skirr
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Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight.
From Time Magazine Archive
His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William
These, with the constant skirr of the ground-crickets and the prolonged whine of the coyote, are the only sounds that salute them as they glide on—none of which are of a kind to cause alarm.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
The household went to bed, and a silence fell upon the dwelling, broken only by the occasional skirr of a halter in Melbury's stables.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
