whir
Noun
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Noun
whir (plural whirs)
- Alternative spelling of whirr
- 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates
- Suddenly, the time-keeper struck three bells, and the deeper notes of the bell forrard, answered them. I gave a start. It seemed to me that they had been struck close to my elbow. There was something unaccountably strange in the air that night. Then, even as the Second Mate answered the look-out's "All's well," there came the sharp whir and rattle of running gear, on the port side of the mainmast.
- 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates
whir (whirs, present participle whirring; past and past participle whirred)
- Alternative spelling of whirr
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