shirr
verb (used with object)
to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
shirrs
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present tense formof shirr (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Tea was to be bought there, and sugar, tobacco, and pickles, jam, nails, boots, hats, flannel shirrs, and mole-skin trowsers.
From Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope
