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Definition of Gurry
1. n. An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.
2. n. A small fort.
Definition of Gurry
1. Noun. (India) A small fort. ¹
2. Noun. fishing offal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gurry
1. fish offal [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurry
| gurners gurnet gurnets gurney gurneys gurniad gurning gurns gurrah gurrahs | gurrier gurriers gurries gurrnki gurrnkis gurry (current term) gurs gursh gurshes gurt | gurts guru gurudom gurudoms guruism guruisms guruji gurujis |
Literary usage of Gurry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1897)
"He then proceeds in this way in the first will: 'To Eleanor gurry wife of the
aforesaid James gurry I bequeath 501. sterling per annum for her life out of ..."
2. New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords, on Appeals and Writs of by Richard Bligh, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1829)
"This, therefore, is the gift of an annuity of 507. per annum to Eleanor gurry,
the wife of James gurry, and after her death to the children of Eleanor gurry ..."
3. The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages (1889)
"gurry. William de Guéri 1165 held lands in capite in Passy, Normandy.* (Feod.
Norm. Duchesne). ... William gurry, of Wiltshire, occurs in the time of Edward ..."
4. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown, David Jennings (1823)
"... or bell, supposed to be a gurry or gong': an account of both these. The laver;
one only during the tabernacle; ten in Solomon's temple, and one only in ..."
5. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"this manuscript is of the fourteenth century, but the manuscript itself, says
O'gurry (and no man is better able to judge), is certainly of the sixth. ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"gurry oil is sold for l/^ less than the other grades. Floating factories are in
use, chiefly in Long Island Sound, in whose protected waters they operate to ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[New Eng.] The fisherman dips a bucket of fresh water from the spring, and,
washing the gurry from his hands and face, starts for home. ..."
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