"skirr" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "skirring",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "skirred",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Frank Forester, (Please provide the book title or journal name), HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:",
          "text": "… while at the same moment, whir-r-r! up sprung a bevy of twenty quail, at least, startling me for the moment by the thick whirring of their wings, and skirring over the underwood right toward Archer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, EJ Thompson, Beyond Baghdad, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:",
          "text": "Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound"
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        "(intransitive) To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound"
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:",
          "text": "... but that they had no thought to let the thing go unnoticed was quickly evidenced by the skirring of motors upon the landing-stage and the quick shooting airward of a long-lined patrol boat.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To make a whirring sound."
      ],
      "id": "en-skirr-en-verb-sLbD28Nx"
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:",
          "text": "The gates of Granada once more poured forth legions of light scouring cavalry, which skirred the country up to the very gates of the Christian fortresses, sweeping off flocks and herds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search about in, scour"
      ],
      "id": "en-skirr-en-verb-0b7JqzX~",
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        "(transitive) To search about in, scour"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51:",
          "text": "I had flown in a helicopter with Javits and Bobby Kennedy. I was skirring around New York like an ephemerid, my jacket lined with jolly psychedelic green.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "to pass over quickly, skim"
      ],
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          "skim"
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  "word": "skirr"
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      "form": "skirrs",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A tern."
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        "(UK, dialect) A tern."
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  "word": "skirr"
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "skirred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirred",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Frank Forester, (Please provide the book title or journal name), HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:",
          "text": "… while at the same moment, whir-r-r! up sprung a bevy of twenty quail, at least, startling me for the moment by the thick whirring of their wings, and skirring over the underwood right toward Archer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, EJ Thompson, Beyond Baghdad, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:",
          "text": "Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound"
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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          "ref": "1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:",
          "text": "... but that they had no thought to let the thing go unnoticed was quickly evidenced by the skirring of motors upon the landing-stage and the quick shooting airward of a long-lined patrol boat.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a whirring sound."
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:",
          "text": "The gates of Granada once more poured forth legions of light scouring cavalry, which skirred the country up to the very gates of the Christian fortresses, sweeping off flocks and herds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search about in, scour"
      ],
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        [
          "scour",
          "scour"
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        "(transitive) To search about in, scour"
      ],
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          "ref": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51:",
          "text": "I had flown in a helicopter with Javits and Bobby Kennedy. I was skirring around New York like an ephemerid, my jacket lined with jolly psychedelic green.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pass over quickly, skim"
      ],
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          "skim",
          "skim"
        ]
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    }
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  "word": "skirr"
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      "glosses": [
        "A tern."
      ],
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        "(UK, dialect) A tern."
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