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Definition of Churring
1. churr [v] - See also: churr
Lexicographical Neighbors of Churring
Literary usage of Churring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Silence of Amor [and] Where the Forest Murmurs by William Sharp (1910)
"He sings his churring song to his mate, who, poised upon a juniper hard by, ...
Like a wandering wave, in the dewy dark, the churring note of the nightjar ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History (1832)
"I have, indeed, occasionally heard this churring in autumn ; but very infrequent
... to observe the many varieties of tone and pitch in their loud churring, ..."
3. The Norfolk Broads by William Alfred Dutt (1906)
"In a copse near the river a nightjar begins churring— a weird, mysterious, haunting
voice of solitude and night—and presently, like a shadow, a sombre bird- ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Once as the female passed him he ran out across the rock face with spread tail,
and wings partly open and trailing, giving a low churring note. ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... utters a deep croak, ending in a churring noise, puffing out the gular plumes
meanwhile and nodding the head up and down. The birds are not ordinarily ..."
6. The Mountains of California by John Muir (1907)
"Gathering courage, he ventures down the trunk again, churring and chirping, and
jerking nervously up and down in curious loops, eyeing you all the time, ..."
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