Burring [verb]

In a house or two lights began to wink; the scent of wood smoke reached him, the distant chimes of bells, the burring of a stream.

The wind twanged the rigging to a burring drone that rose to a shriek in the shuddering gusts.

If it is locked by burring over the edge of the bolt, do not use a heavy hammer and try to spread the whole head of the bolt.

There was a burring little stir, and some of the audience got up and edged down closer to the front.

We made a sally and levelled a few of the burring brutes before the town guard came up and spoiled the fun.

The shepherd was gravely sincere and he knew that Lad would understand his burring words.

One chance was left, and Barry took it,—the "burring" of the gears in lieu of a brake.

Only the children hastening from school nodded to him as he passed them, nor hushed the loud clatter of their burring tongues.

Pains are taken to clean the wool even before removal from the pelt, by the liberal use of water and the "burring machine."

Sometimes he seems entirely Canadian; at other moments the complete Scot with every R burring like a cockchafer on a window-pane.