skirl
/skurl/US // skɜrl //UK // (skɜːl, Scottish skɪrl) //
漩涡,旋风,涡流,涡旋
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Definitions
v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : to play the bagpipe.
- : Scot. and North England. to shriek.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the sound of a bagpipe.
- : Scot. and North England. any shrill sound.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inwhistle
Forms: skirled, skirling, skirls
Examples
A roll of a drum and the skirl of a fife came wafting across the valley on the April breeze.
His shout was dim under the hoot and skirl of wind: "If ye like it so well down here, then help us bail!"
The skirl of bagpipes shrilled from without—that exotic, half-barbarous sound now coming intimately into her life.
A swarm of mosquitoes buzzed in the glare thrown by the lamp with a shrill, attenuated sound like the skirl of far-away bagpipes.
And he himsel' looked round on me, like the devil he is; and, wi' a skirl o' a laugh, he strikes the lantern out o' my hand.
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