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Definition of Gurries
1. gurry [n] - See also: gurry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurries
| gurnards gurned gurner gurners gurnet gurnets gurney gurneys gurniad gurning | gurns gurrah gurrahs gurrier gurriers gurries (current term) gurrnki gurrnkis gurry gurs | gursh gurshes gurt gurts guru gurudom gurudoms guruism |
Literary usage of Gurries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dust and Foam: Or, Three Oceans and Two Continents by Thomas Robinson Warren (1859)
"... their Improved Condition—Assimilating to Europeans—Game of Ten-pins as played
by Chinamen—London Hotel—Public Drive—The gurries and other ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"There were four gurries remaining when he began to write ; and it was evening when
... Wag he four gurries in writing it ?—I cannot say whether it was (mu ..."
3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1814)
"There were four gurries remaining when he began to write ; and it was evening when
... Was he four gurries in writing it ?—T cannot say whether it was four ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1860)
"Others on the beach make clutches at the fish in the "gurries," which they follow
to the cellar- doors, making constant attacks on it, in spite of the hard ..."
5. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald During the Years 1845-51, Under the by Berthold Seemann (1853)
"The gurries, to which I have thus alluded, are not the least remarkable feature
of this place ; they are comfortable, airy, four-wheeled carriages, ..."
6. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1854)
"Women and girls, decked in coarse brown aprons, are hurrying along ; and men arc
rushing up the lane with hand-barrows or "gurries," as I find they are ..."
7. Memoirs Relative to the State of India by Warren Hastings (1787)
"When four gurries* of the night were paft, the fky grew cloudy, and it became fo
dark, that the hand could not be per- ceived. ..."
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