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skirling
[ skur-ling ]
noun
, Scot. and North England.
- the act of shrieking.
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Example Sentences
He did not imagine he would hear these skirling pipers again.
From The Daily Beast
She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes.
From Project Gutenberg
He heard the bagpipes of the Highlanders skirling behind as he reached the opening in the forest.
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But whaur Tam hung there was naething but the craig, and the sea below, and the solans skirling and flying.
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And there would be a fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side; and this thing had nae music but the skirling of the solans.
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There was more skirling of bells, another nerve-trying wait, and at last the clerk of the hotel answered.
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