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Skirling   Listen
noun
Skirling  n.  A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Skirling" Quotes from Famous Books



... a great tooth, and afforded a pleasant shade; but there was such a screaming and calling of gulls, terns, cormorants, and all manner of other birds, as they entered the little strait, and such a cloud of them hovered and whirled overhead, that Tam uttered imprecations on their skirling, and bade his companions lie close and keep quiet till they had settled again, lest the commotion should betray that the rocks were ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... about Kent. For Kent it was, sure enough, and after a march of some two or three miles we found ourselves "at home" in West Sandling Camp. And how proudly we marched up the long hill and past the Brigade Headquarters, our pipers skirling their heartiest and the drummers beating as never before. For we were on exhibition and we knew it. The roads were lined with soldiers and they cheered and cheered as we came marching in. We were tired, our loads were heavy and the mud was deep, but never a man in that column would have traded ...
— The Emma Gees • Herbert Wes McBride



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