Obs. Also 7 jurre. [Echoic: cf. JAR v. and CHURR v.] intr. To butt with (or as with) the horns or head. Said of a ram, a battering-ram, etc. Hence Jurring vbl. sb.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXVII. xxxii. 963. By that time … the [battering] ramme was jurring also at the other part. Ibid. (1601), Pliny, IX. xxxi. (1634), I. 253. Crabs … will fight one with another, and then ye shall see them jur and butt with their horns like rams.
1668. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., Pref. 1 (1713), 12. The Arietations or Jurrings of the Spirits in the Ventricles of the Brain.
1828. Craven Dial., Jur, to hit, to strike, to push with the head.
