skirling

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English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskɜːlɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskɝlɪŋ/

Verb

skirling

present participle and gerund of skirl
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
  "And at ony rate , if he suld hear her skirling her auld ends oʻsangs , he's no to ken for that that there's ony body wi' her."

Noun

skirling (plural skirlings)

(UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
(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.

References

“skirling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
"skirling" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.

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