nurr

English

Noun

nurr (plural nurrs)

1. Alternative form of knur
   • Quoted in 1905, William Carew Hazlitt, Faiths and Folklore (volume 2, page 595)

     [The boys] have taken possession of the turnpike road to play the before-mentioned games, to the serious inconvenience of the passengers, one of whom, a woman, was yesterday knocked down by a nurr which struck her in the head.