urry

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See also: 'urry, and Urry

English

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Etymology

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Compare Goidelic uir, uireach (mould, clay).

Noun

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urry (countable and uncountable, plural urries)

  1. A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for urry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)