Definition of "shirr" []

• To gather (cloth) into decorative rows by parallel stitching. (verb-transitive)
• To cook (unshelled eggs) by baking until set. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We pulled into the parking lot with a shirr of tires over sand, cut the engine, and while the engine ticked and the offshore breeze rattled the palms behind us, we drank our coffee, looked through the windshield at the beach, and tried to get stoked."
• "Then we wouldn't go through a shirr charade of having frankly an address as confusing as the one that Mitt Romney gave today."
• "The asylums, such as they were, were filled with those whose minds in the ghastly loneliness of the desert had been torn and turned and twisted by the incessant whirl and shirr and swish and force of the pitiless winds."