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A shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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- 2006 [Bantam], Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, 2011, Black Swan, page 191, The last servants and late officials hurried into their places, the guards took their positions, and then, with a beating of the drums and a skirl of reed pipes, the whole group made its way back across the courtyard and up the stairs to the Window of Appearances between the palace and the Great Temple.
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A blast (of wind-blown snow or rain); a gust (especially if accompanied by snow or rain, or a shill or whistling sound).
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To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Examples
- 1829, James Hogg (as the Ettrick Shepherd), The p and the q, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 26, page 693, He gloom'd and he skirl'd, and, when in hard case, / He whiles gae his mother a yerk on the face;
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Alternative form of shirl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sound
play the bagpipes
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make a shrill, wailing sound
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Broader terms: sound, go
Originally from Scots and Northern English dialects (as a verb), probably of Old Norse origin; ultimately imitative.
Also from Scots and Northern English dialects.
