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verb-intransitive. To produce a high, shrill, wailing tone. Used of bagpipes.

v. To play (a piece) on bagpipes.

n. The shrill sound made by the chanter pipe of bagpipes.

n. A shrill wailing sound: "The skirl of a police whistle split the stillness” ( Sax Rohmer).

v. To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.

v. To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

n. A shrill cry or sound.

n. A Scotch form of shirl for shrill.

n. the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe

v. make a shrill, wailing sound

v. play the bagpipes

"The "skirl" of the nighthawk ceases; but away through the woods, down at the creek, the whippoorwill begins her oft-repeated trinity of notes."

skirled    skirling    skirls   

sound    go    play   

scream   

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