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English
Noun
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
Noun
furr (plural furrs)
- A furrow.
1790, Robert Burns (lyrics and music), “The Braes o' Killiecrankie”:
Further reading
“furr”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 1 August 2024.