skirl

• At first we have to enjoin on the women who have children to remain sitting, for when they kneel, they squeeze their children, and a simultaneous skirl is set up by the whole troop of youngsters, who make the prayer inaudible When Livingstone and Sekeletu had gone about sixty miles on the way to the Barotse, they encountered Mpepe, Sekeletu's half-brother and secret rival. —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
• You couldn't git ober de mountain-tops 'cept you had wings, an' you couldn't climb ober de pres'pisses 'cep you was a monkey or a skirl--though it am bery lubly, no doubt The negro's comments were strictly correct, though somewhat uncouthly expressed. —  The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
• Pickering's hyla, his little bagpipe blown almost to bursting as he tries to rally the scattered summer by his tiny, mighty "skirl." —  The Hills of Hingham
• The "skirl" of the nighthawk ceases; but away through the woods, down at the creek, the whippoorwill begins her oft-repeated trinity of notes. —  Some Summer Days in Iowa
• "I'm no a woman to skirl or swoon," he said, almost petulantly, "and it's right and fit the lad should gie his mither the first greeting But he stretched out both hands, and his cheeks were flushed and his eyes full when Davie flung himself on his knees beside him My lad! —  Scottish sketches

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