Context/ examples | skirl, v.1 Sc. and north. dial. Also 5 scrille, skrille, 6, 8 skirle, 6 skyrl, 8 skerl. [prob. of Scand. origin: the early form skrille corresponds to a Norw. dial. skrylla, with variants skrella and skrolla in the same sense.]
1. intr. To scream, shriek, cry out shrilly. [...] 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xi, Stay where ye are, and skirl as loud as ye can. 1889 Barrie Window in Thrums xi. 100 The women-folk fair skirled wi fear.
b. Of the bagpipe (or its music): To produce the shrill sounds by which it is characterized; to sound shrilly. [...]
c. Of other inanimate things. 1827 Scott Chron. Canongate iv, On the painted board that is skirling and groaning at the door. 1891 Barrie Little Minister iii, Blasts from the north..skirled through the manse. 1894 Crockett Raiders 388 It was comfortable too at meal-times to hear the bacon skirling in the pan.
2. To play the bagpipe. 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch ii, Three fiddlers..and a piper..all skirling, scraping and bumming away throughither. 1879 C. Keene Let. in Life x. (1892) 296 [He] had a sort of piper skirling away in his garden.
3. trans. To sing, utter, play, etc., in loud and shrill tones. [...]
b. To cause (the bagpipe) to sound shrilly. 1885 G. Fraser Poems 219 Pate Clauchan o this toon, Wha skirled his pipes.
zu Bed. 1 im OED2:
krei|schen <sw. u. st.V.; kreischte/(veraltet, noch landsch.:) krisch, hat gekreischt/(veraltet, noch landsch.:) gekrischen> [mhd. krischen, lautm.]: 1. schrill, misstönend schreien: vor Vergnügen k.; sie würden k. vor Entsetzen, gellend, gellend k., immer nur k. (Bastian, Brut6); Wütend wollte er ihn abschütteln, doch da fing er an zu k.: Ein Spion! Ein russischer Spion! (Kühn, Zeit 240); die Möwen, Pfauen kreischen. © 2000 Dudenverlag
zu Bed. 1c im OED2: 2. helle, misstönende, schrille Geräusche machen: die Säge kreischt; Die eisernen Angeln des Fensterladens kreischten mit Pfauenstimmen (Ransmayr, Welt 82); Als das neue Jahr anbrach, kreischte der Sturm in den Wanten (Hamburger Abendblatt 24.8. 85,7); Der Wagen fährt in den Gerichtshof ein. Bremsen kreischen (Ziegler, Labyrinth 305).
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