furr

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English

Noun

furr (countable and uncountable, plural furrs)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

furr”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 1 August 2024.