BIRR

Birr

Birr is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. It was formerly called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse, and renamed at some time between 1891 and 1901. The town lies within a parish of the same name in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.

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birr

Noun

  1. force, vigor, energy
  2. a strong wind.
  3. the force of the wind; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force
  4. a thrust or push
  5. a whirring noise
  6. a strong trilling pronunciation

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims

Verb

  1. To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.


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