The sound of a partridges or pheasants wings. [Note.--Whir is used by the common people in New England in an adverbial manner, to express the rapid flight or the sound of any thing thrown. See Whir .]
Whirring[Present participle and verbal noun]Webster's Dictionary 1913
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
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