Crossword-Solution: SHIRR 5 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Shirr n. A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as
to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called
also shirring, and gauging.

We have 78 clues for the answer “SHIRR”

Clue Answers
Bake, in a way 1 answer
GATHERED trimming 1 answer
ELASTIC webbing 1 answer
Draw up, as cloth 1 answer
Draw material into gathers 1 answer
Create smocking 1 answer
Cook unshelled eggs 1 answer
Cook or sew a certain way. 1 answer
Cook eggs 1 answer
Cook (eggs) in cream. 1 answer
Gather cloth 1 answer
Bake, but not in the shell 1 answer
Bake, as eggs, in a shallow dish. 1 answer
Bake, as eggs removed from their shells 1 answer
Bake, as eggs 1 answer
Bake, as an egg 1 answer
Bake, as a shelled egg 1 answer
Bake in individual dishes, as eggs 1 answer
Bake in individual dishes 1 answer
Bake in cream 1 answer
Gather, in stitchery 1 answer
To gather skirts by parallel runnings. 1 answer
Sew in gathers. 1 answer
Prepare eggs in a certain way 1 answer
Prepare as some eggs 1 answer
Poach in cream. 1 answer
Poach in cream, as eggs. 1 answer
Make smocking, e.g. 1 answer
Make cloth gathers 1 answer
In sewing, series of parallel runnings. 1 answer
Bake in a shallow dish, as eggs 1 answer
Gather, in sewing 1 answer
Gather, as cloth 1 answer
Gather, as a seamstress 1 answer
Gather up, as cloth 1 answer
Gather together for stitching 1 answer
Gather in rows, as cloth 1 answer
Gather for stitching 1 answer
Gather fabric 1 answer
Bake in a shallow dish 1 answer
A way to bake 1 answer
Bake (eggs) in a shallow dish 1 answer
Bake (eggs) with cream or crumbs. 1 answer
Bake an egg 1 answer
Bake eggily 1 answer
Bake eggs in their shells 1 answer
Bake eggs, in a way 1 answer
Bake in a ramekin, say 1 answer
Gather into folds 2 answers
Shallow Bake in a dish 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Now and then is heard the "Oom, oom, oom," of the dummerh, and occasionally a cry from the bird Millindooloonubbah of "Googoolguyyah, googoolguyyah." And in answer comes the wailing of the gloomy-looking balah trees, and then a rustling shirr through the bibbil branches, until at last every tree gives forth its voice and makes sad the margin of the lake with echoes of the past.
Australian Legendary Tales K. Langloh Parker 2003
The trees on the hills behind the Castle were bending and bowing; and not merely around the boat, but far as could be seen the surface of the ancient channel was a-shirr and a-shatter under beating of advance gusts.
The Prince of India, Volume I Lew. Wallace 2004
The asylums, such as they were, were filled with those whose minds in the ghastly loneliness of the desert had been torn and turned and twisted by the incessant whirl and shirr and swish and force of the pitiless winds.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris 2006
The way they shirr that calico arrangement around their back door, has long been my admiration." "It is beautiful," said Patty, "and the way the stove-pipe comes out of the roof,----" "And the children's heads out 'most anywhere," added Elise; "yes, it's certainly picturesque." "Speaking of gipsy waggons makes me hungry," said Mrs.
Patty's Summer Days Carolyn Wells 2008
For the bag cut of blue satin one piece twenty-four inches wide and ten inches and a half high, sew it up on the sides, and fold down the upper edge two inches and a half wide on the wrong side, for a shirr, through which blue silk cord is run, and sew it to the upper edge of the foundation on the wrong side.
Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 Various 2009
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 132 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).