scurr

We hear the rippling burr, the hard trill—what Thomas Hardy called the scurr and John Clare the croo—and we can even imitate it.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

I use a white noise generator @ home, and the brown noise generator on this site is remarkably calming. scurr booticon

iTunes Sleep Timer Stops Playback After A User-Defined Time | Lifehacker Australia 2010

The noise of a beetle and wedges and the splintering of wood was periodically heard from this direction; and at some little distance further a steady regular munching and the occasional scurr of a rope betokened a stable, and horses feeding within it.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

A minor sound was the scurr of a distant night-hawk.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

A little squirrel went scampering up one huge tree trunk and down another, just a pace ahead, scouting for the other pixies of the woods, till with a scurr-r-r and chitter -- chipper -- ee, he whisked back in his tracks.

The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

The noise of a beetle and wedges and the splintering of wood was periodically heard from this direction; and at some little distance further a steady regular munching and the occasional scurr of a rope betokened a stable, and horses feeding within it.

Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884

A minor sound was the scurr of a distant night-hawk.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armoury previous to a campaign.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armury previous to a campaign.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874