▪ I. † flur, n.1 Obs. rare. Bird-catching.
‘A moveable perch to which a bird is tied and which the bird-catcher can raise by means of a long string.’ (Pennant). Also attrib., as flur-bird.
| 1766 Pennant Zool. (1768) II. 331 He hath, besides, what are called flur-birds, which are placed within the nets, are raised upon the flur and gently let down at the time the wild bird approaches them. 1797 P. Wakefield Mental Improv. (1801) I. 57 The flur-birds are braced by a silken string. |
▪ II. flur, n.2 Sc.
(flɜː(r))
[? f. flurr v.]
Flue, fluff.
| 1845 New Stat. Acc. Scot. VI. 146 The dust and small flur separated from the cotton. |
▪ III. flur
obs. var. of floor, flurr.