Definitions for skirling

skirling skirl·ing

Spelling: [skur-ling]
IPA: /ˈskɜr lɪŋ/

Skirling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in skirling (giiklnrs).

Definitions for skirling

noun

  1. the act of shrieking.
  2. the sound of a bagpipe.
  3. Scot. and North England. any shrill sound.

verb (used without object)

  1. to play the bagpipe.
  2. Scot. and North England. to shriek.

Origin of skirling

First recorded in 1775-85; skirl + -ing1

Examples for skirling

Out come his mither like a fury, skirling about her hoose, and her servants, and her weans.

I could hear the skirling sword-clashes of the final fight to the death of the two Macks, Duff and Beth.

Very faint, from far in the distance, there is heard a skirling sound.

He had not been many months engaged in his laborious work when he was solicited to remove to the parish of skirling, near Biggar.

Yet this was to be seen yesterday afternoon when the pipes were skirling their martial strains, to the delight of all and sundry.

At last this word was given, and the procession began its march amidst the cheers of the people and a skirling of the pipes.

Scarlett came in a moment after and sniffed, with his nose in the air; then he walked to the pan in which the bacon was skirling.

She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes.

Police whistles were skirling around the house of Huang Chow.

He did not imagine he would hear these skirling pipers again.

Word Value for skirling
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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