skirling

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English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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skirling

  1. present participle and gerund of skirl

Noun

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skirling (plural skirlings)

  1. (UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
  2. (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
    • 1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life:
      When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

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