Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See purr.
  • noun An obsolete form of perry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The dunlin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect A bird, the dunlin.

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Examples

  • They may always deceive, for you must trust them, as for instance, if you travel, to ask a bill of Particulars is to purre in a wasp's nest, you must pay what they ask as sure as if it were the assessment of

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • [* Linceus ys a beaste so quike eyed that it wyll see thorow any wall] nother purre blynd.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • This is just a grandstand play by Obama, purre and simple.

    Lone Star Times 2009

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