gurry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.

   “54 On the 18th, we halted at sunset, as usual, and most of us were walking out into the woods -- some getting wood for cooking, others looking for hares — when we heard a gurry strike seven o'clock.”

2. isim The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.

   “Half a gurry after that, I went away too.”

3. isim A small fort.

   “Since then, and in the course of yesterday afternoon, the town and gurry of Jubbulpore have been entirely evacuated by armed people of every description.”

4. isim Fishing offal.

   “The practice of throwing overboard gurry is in many respects reprehensible, because in the first place it is a very great waste of animal matter.”

5. isim Diarrhoea.