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
O. N. skirr, clear, bright, skira, to make clear, skýra, to purify.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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
Steeds were browsing in the shade, with loosened bits, but saddled, ready at the first sound of the bugle to skirr through brake and thicket.
From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore
