serry

verb

1. To crowd, press together, or close (rank)

   dated, literary

   Round, square, and angular, serry and shove

   High shoulders, low shoulders, broad shoulders, narrow ones,

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French serré, past participle of serrer, from Middle French serrer, from Old French serrer, from Vulgar Latin *serrare (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serare (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“a bar, bolt”), akin to Latin serere (“to join or bind together”). Compare French serrer (“to tighten”) and Spanish cerrar (“to shut, close”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry serry (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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