verb
- moved rapidly or hastily; scurried
Usage: past tense of ‘skir’; archaic or dialectal
Examples
- The rabbit skirred across the meadow when it heard footsteps.
- Leaves skirred along the pavement in the autumn wind.
- The children skirred away when they saw the teacher approaching.
- Small creatures skirred through the underbrush at dawn.
- The mouse skirred behind the cabinet to escape the cat.