screak

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She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.

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  1. intransitive verb To screech; shriek.
  2. intransitive verb To creak.
  3. noun A screech; a shriek.
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  1. Middle English skricken, from Old Norse skrækja.

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  1. Early modern English also screek, scriek; now usually assibilated terminally screech or initially shriek, being subject, like other supposed imitative words, to considerable variation: see screech, and scrike, shriek, shrike.
  2. Early modern English also scrike; from screak, v. Cf. screech, shriek, shrike, n.
 

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