Girran

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - girran

According to the Old English Dictionary:

girran
Take here georran in Dict., and add:--Ic (a file) gyrre garrio (garrio, voce carens, rauco cum murmure stridens, Ald. 252, 25), An. Ox. 26, 13. Gyrran grunnire (porcinus paganorum strepitus grunnire desisteret, Ald. 60, 36), 4337. [D. D. yirr, yerr to snarl, growl, yell: N. E. D. garre: O. H. Ger. cherran stridere, strepere.] See next word. girran
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