gurry

noun5

1. •
   Fishing offal.

   • The practice of throwing overboard gurry is in many respects reprehensible, because in the first place it is a very great waste of animal matter. — 1878
2. •
   (India) A small fort.

   • Since then, and in the course of yesterday afternoon, the town and gurry of Jubbulpore have been entirely evacuated by armed people of every description. — 1819
3. •
   (India, historical) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.

   • 54 On the 18th, we halted at sunset, as usual, and most of us were walking out into the woods -- some getting wood for cooking, others looking for hares — when we heard a gurry strike seven o'clock. — 1853
4. •
   (India, historical) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.

   • Half a gurry after that, I went away too. — 1816
5. •
   (dialect) Diarrhoea.