Gnirran
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gnirran
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- gnirran
- to snarl, gnash or chatter (with the teeth):--Hwýlon þá téð for mycclum cyle manna þǽr gnyrrað (gryrrað, Dóm. L. 195) nunc nimio stridentes frigore dentes, Wlfst. 138, 29. Hlihhan oððe gnyrende gesihð unrótnyssa getácnað ridere aut stridentes uiderit tristitiam significat, Lch. iii. 210, 12. [N. E. D. gnar.] gnirran