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▪ I. † jur, v. Obs.
Also 7 jurre.
[Echoic: cf. jar v.1 and churr v.]
intr. To butt with (or as with) the horns or head. Said of a ram, a battering-ram, etc. Hence ˈjurring vbl. n.
1600Holland Livy xxxvii. xxxii. 963 By that time..the [battering] ramme was jurring also at the other part. 1601― Pliny ix. xxxi. (1634) I. 253 Crabs..will fight one with another, and then ye shall see them jur and butt with their horns like rams. 1668G. C. in H. More Div. Dial. Pref. 1 (1713) 12 The Arietations or Jurrings of the Spirits in the Ventricles of the Brain. 1828Craven Dial., Jur, to hit, to strike, to push with the head.
▪ II. † jur, n. Obs. rare.
In 7 jurre.
[f. prec.]
A butt or push made by a ram or battering-ram.
1600Holland Livy xxxvi. xxiii. 932 When as the walls should be shaken with the rammes, they caught not hold of them..and by plucking them aside, avoided their jurres. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xxiii. iv. 222 To breake whatsoever standeth against it, with mightie strokes and maine jurres. |