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



verb
Birr  v. i.  (past & past part. birred; pres. part. birring)  To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Birr" Quotes from Famous Books



... boroughs were "about twenty-nine." Now, there were but eighteen boroughs unrestored; but King helps out the falsehood by inserting places—Thurles, Tipperary, Arklow, and Birr—which never had members before or since, by creating a second town of Kells, by transferring St. Johnstown in Longford which returned members, to St. Johnstown in Donegal, which was a seat of war, and by other ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis



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