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Birr   Listen
noun
Birr  n.  
1.
A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
2.
A rush or impetus; force.





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"Birr" Quotes from Famous Books



... reached Parsonstown, known of old in Irish story as Birr, from St. Brendan's Abbey of Biorra, and now a clean prosperous place, carefully looked after by the chief landlord of the region, the Earl of Rosse, who, while he inherits the astronomical tastes and the mathematical ability of his father, is not so absorbed in star-gazing ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert


Words linked to "Birr" :   whizz, cent, go, whirring, Ethiopian monetary unit


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