Crossword-Solution: CHURRING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

And: 'Soon I'll be in open fields,' he thought, And half remembered starlight on the meadows, Scent of mown grass and voices of tired men, Fading along the field-paths; home and sleep And cool-swept upland spaces, whispering leaves, And far off the long churring night-jar's note.

The full white moon was high in the cloudless deep of heaven, and the sounds of the warm summer night were all about their path; the splash of leaping fish, the sleepy chirrup of birds disturbed by some night-wandering creature; the song of the reed-warbler, the persistent churring of the night jar, and the occasional hoot of the owl, far off on some ancestral tree." Now all this, except, perhaps, the "ancestral" tree, is a direct picture, and with it some men might stop.

Towards the end of June the _chuk_, _chuk_, _chuk_, _chuk_, _chuk_ of Horsfield's nightjar is not often heard, but the bird continues to utter its soft churring note.

Will you--" He stopped short, for as soon as he began to speak the men seemed to press down their blades that they were grinding harder and harder, making them send forth such a deafening churring screech that he paused quite in despair of making himself heard.

Just before I reached the door, though, I heard one of the men say to his neighbour--heard it plainly over the whirr and churring of the stones: "I've know'd dawgs poisoned for less than that." "What shall I do?" I asked myself as soon as I was outside; but the answer did not come.