skirr

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His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Beyond the ring and roll of hell— And spiral lofts of quartz and gold— We skirr upon the crutch of haste And cleave the abyss, cold and bleak.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean

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

O. N. skirr, clear, bright, skira, to make clear, skýra, to purify.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias