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skirl

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5 lettersPronunciation /skɜːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted iklrsStarts with SEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. play the bagpipes

Word origin

Originally from Scots and Northern English dialects (as a verb), probably of Old Norse origin; ultimately imitative.

Used in a sentence

  • 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;
  • Drums began to thump in a variety of rhythms. The flautists were not sure what to play. The shawm began to skirl.
  • To a resounding wail headed by the King-Kong skirl, all gangs joined in hauling in the net.

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