[f. prec. vb.]
† 1. A sound resembling a chirp; used by A. Hume to describe the sound of (tſ). Obs.
c. 1620. A. Hume, Brit. Tong. (1865), 13. With c we spil the aspiration, turning it into an Italian chirt; as, charitie, cherrie.
2. A squeeze (which ejects liquid).
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 171. Giving his trowsers a hitch, and his quid a cruel chirt.
Chirt, obs. form of CHERT.
