Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See the quotation.
  • noun A part of a spindle; a spindle (?).
  • To speak with the uvular utterance of the r; be unable to pronounce r.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See burr, n., 6.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.

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