SHIRR
\ʃˈɜː], \ʃˈɜː], \ʃ_ˈɜː]\
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A puckering or fulling produced in a fabric by means of parallel gathering-threads.
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To draw up (cloth) by gathering on parallel gathering-threads; in cooking, to poach in cream, as eggs.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.