[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That whirrs; moving with or making a vibratory sound; also said of the sound.
c. 1480. Henryson, Trial of Fox, 116. The quhuirand [v.r. quhrynand] quhitret with the quhasill went.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 399. The whirring chariot.
1611. Cotgr., Roncé, hurled; or making a whurring noise, as a stone, &c., cast with violence.
1704. Pope, Windsor Forest, 111. From the brake the whirring pheasant springs.
1783. Burns, ‘Now westlin winds,’ i. The moorcock springs, on whirring wings, Amang the blooming heather.
1830. Tennyson, Owl, i. The whirring sail goes round.
1841. G. P. R. James, Corse de Leon, iii. The whirring scream of the night hawk.
