Meanings
verbupwhirr (third-person singular simple present upwhirrs, present participle upwhirring, simple past and past participle upwhirred)
present singular third person upwhirrs · participle present upwhirring · participle past upwhirred · past upwhirred
- intransitiverareTo rise with a whirring sound.
Moreover, he did not shy at things lying in the road or rabbits darting from bushes or at the upwhirring of birds.
1924, Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon1 more example
[…] spearing the wild turkeys gossiping stupidly in a line along the branches, flushing the partridges, wing-shooting as they upwhirred […]
1977, Terrence Kilpatrick, Swimming Man Burning, page 122
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