▪ I. gurry1 Now dial.
(ˈgʌrɪ)
Also 6 gyrre, 7 gurrie.
Diarrhœa.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §70 But ye can not gyue your draught oxe to moche meate, excepte it be the aftermath..for that wyll cause hym to haue the gyrre. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 399 The leafe also is as venimous as the graine, yet otherwhiles there ensueth thereof a fluxe and gurrie of the belly, which saves..life. Ibid. II. 41 Either the leafe or the seed of Siler..staies the gurrie or running out of the belly in 4 footed beasts. 1679 Coles, A gurry, alvus concita. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v., I had a such a gurry on me as if I hadn't eaten nothink of a fortnit. |
▪ II. gurry2 local.
(ˈgʌrɪ)
A hand-barrow; a small car or sledge.
| 1777 Horæ Subsecivæ (E.D.D.). 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 52 The men are employed in carrying the fish in ‘gurries’ (hand-barrows) to the cellar. 1855 Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 723/3 Gurry (Devon), a thing for carrying apples, carried by two men. 1881 Times 19 Jan. 10/6 Large catches of sprats landed at St. Ives, the catches ranging up to 30 gurries per boat. |
b. Comb. gurry-butt dial., a dung-sledge.
| 1796 W. Marshall W. England I. 121 The ‘Gurry-butt’, or dung sledge, of Devonshire, is a sort of sliding cart or barrow; usually of a size proper to be drawn by one horse. 1834 Brit. Husb. I. 167 For carrying hay, straw, faggots, &c., a kind of car..called..gurry-butt, in Devonshire. 1867 in Spec. Eng. Dial. (1891) 36 My ould asneger 'll do vor put Into a little gurry-butt. |
▪ III. ‖ gurry3 Anglo-Indian.
(ˈgʌrɪ)
[Hindustani gaṛhī, f. gaṛh a hill fort.]
A small native Indian fort.
| [1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 129 This Gur or Hill is reckoned four Course up. Ibid. 144 Their Fortified Gurs or Castles. Ibid. 165 Strong Gurrs, or Fastnesses upon the Mountains.] 1786 Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1813 (40) VI. 429 The Zemindars in four Pergunnahs are so refractory as to have fortified themselves in their Gurries. 1825 W. Hamilton Handbk. Terms, Gurry in the East Indies, a native fortification, generally consisting of a wall flanked with towers. 1858 in Simmonds Dict. Trade. |
▪ IV. gurry4 Chiefly U.S. Whale-fishing.
(ˈgʌrɪ)
The refuse from ‘cutting-in’ and ‘boiling out’ a whale. Also, fish-offal. b. Comb., gurry-shark (see quot. 1885).
| 1850 Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. xiii. (1859) 183 Gurry is the term by which they call the combined water, oil, and dirt that ‘cutting-in’ a whale leaves on deck and below. 1885 Stand. Nat. Hist. III. 76 The sleeper shark Somniosus microcephala..By the fishermen it is known as ground-shark or gurry-shark, the word ‘gurry’ being a local term for fish offal. |
Hence gurry v. trans., to foul with fish-offal. (Cent. Dict.)
▪ V. gurry5
(ˈgʌrɪ)
[Etym. unknown.]
gurry sore, a kind of boil.
| 1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. v. 106 The affliction of gurry⁓sores being the mark of the caste that claimed him. Ibid. 118 Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm. 1950 C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 109 Boils—gurry sores—blains—all the plagues of Egypt. |
▪ VI. gurry
obs. form of ghurry.