Usually means: Loud, shrill wailing or screeching.
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  1. caterwauling: Merriam-Webster
  2. caterwauling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caterwauling: Vocabulary.com
  4. caterwauling: Wordnik
  5. caterwauling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. caterwauling: Wiktionary
  7. Caterwauling, caterwauling: Dictionary.com
  8. Caterwauling (The 3Ds EP): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Caterwauling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. caterwauling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Caterwauling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. caterwauling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Caterwauling: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. caterwauling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. caterwauling: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See caterwaul as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (caterwaul)

verb:  (intransitive) To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a noisy argument, like cats.
noun:  A yowling.
noun:  A noisy quarrel.
▸ Also see caterwaul


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