Usually means: Playing high-pitched, shrill bagpipe sounds.
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  1. skirling: Merriam-Webster
  2. skirling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skirling: Vocabulary.com
  4. skirling: Wordnik
  5. skirling: Wiktionary
  6. skirling: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. skirling: Dictionary.com
  8. Skirling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. skirling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Skirling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. skirling: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Skirling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skirling: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skirling)

▸ noun:  (UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
▸ noun:  (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

Similar:
whirl, tumble, whirl around, sperling, whitling, sparling, speldron, grawl, speldring, speldrin, more...

Opposite:
whispering, murmuring, muttering, speaking softly

Types:
bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, uilleann pipes, more...

Adjectives:
grand, wild, same, other, harsh, sweet, quick, shrill, more

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Similar:
whirl, tumble, whirl around, sperling, whitling, sparling, speldron, grawl, speldring, speldrin, more...

Opposite:
whispering, murmuring, muttering, speaking softly

Types:
bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, uilleann pipes, more...

Adjectives:
grand, wild, same, other, harsh, sweet, quick, shrill, more



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