(n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.
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Whirr
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(1) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
(2) The mind whirrs away, and soon enough the demystification begins.
(3) The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
(4) A policewoman hops to the side, to avoid blocking our shot, and there's a chorus of clicks, whirrs and focus beeps.
(5) Then West Ham took over, their running, passing and imagination making the visitors look like mere bouncers amid a whirr of party people.
(6) Once the wheels began to whirr on Manchester United’s move for Radamel Falcao, with Welbeck told he could leave Old Trafford, the route south became a serious option.
(7) With that news still forthcoming, the rumour mill continues to whirr, particularly after Abrams confirmed that he'd had meetings with Jesse Plemons, the American actor known for roles in TV dramas Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights.
(8) Part of the problem, I suspect, is that few of us doubt the behavioural or environmental threats of technology; our endless distractibility, the constant beeps and whirrs and notifications of modern life.
(9) Wembley itself was ringed with extra security for the occasion from the whirr of the helicopters parked against the clouds hours before kick-off, to the presence on the usually carefree Wembley Way of knots of armed policemen in bulky protective vests, automatic weapons strapped to their chests.
(10) "The population of Mogadishu is regaining confidence," he says as the air conditioner whirrs, dripping water on to sandbags outside his prefab office.
(11) But then, with a spiral, pulsing flutter, it grew to a hissing whirr, landing with ferocious blasts, with tremendous thumps and then their echoes, followed by the whine of fragments which cut into the trees, driving white scars in their trunks and filling the air with torn shreds of foliage.
(12) In a small-space game the Welshman was a whirr of pace and dribbling as the ball stuck to that famous left boot before up went his arms in mock-jubilation to tease the team-mates who could not dispossess him.
(13) Koeman was irritable about that; the time-wasting, which he felt the officials could have done more to stamp out; the disallowed goal; the result and the whirr of transfer speculation which tracked both Mané and Victor Wanyama into the game.