furr
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]furr (countable and uncountable, plural furrs)
- Obsolete form of fur.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:
- I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]furr (plural furrs)
- A furrow.
- 1790, Robert Burns (lyrics and music), “The Braes o' Killiecrankie”:
- The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr
And Clavers got a clankie, O- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]“furr”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 1 August 2024.