skirling
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English [edit]
Verb [edit]
skirling
- Present participle of skirl.
Noun [edit]
skirling (plural skirlings)
- (UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
- (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- Mrs J. H. Ewing
- When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.
References [edit]
- skirling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- "skirling" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
