shirring

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This roller skater is onstage as well as on various screens, weaving and skirring from one medium to the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

But then came another clear stretch and he spun along, his skates skirring merrily at every sturdy stroke.

From Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Bonehill, Ralph

Listening intently, I heard the sound of skirring steps on the other side of and some way down the river; and the peculiar tread, even thus far off, was plainly Suan Isco's.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

The smaller snake was up in arms, skirring his rattle violently, while the larger one was twisting uneasily about, but not showing fight.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by Patten, William

The wide eye noted everything, and considered it,—even to the hairy red fly alit on the fern frond, or the skirring progress of the black water-beetle across the pale surface of the Perdu.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir