Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of screak.

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Examples

  • Johnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek.

    THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

  • In another moment he would have knocked at the kitchen door, but the skreek of a bucksaw from the woodshed led him aside.

    THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

  • The only sounds here were the stirrings of plants, the occasional skreek of a nightbird, and the soft thudding steps of the horses.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • To lift them they did, senators four, by the first quaint skreek of the gloaming and they hopped it up the mountainy molehill, traversing climes of old times gone by of the days not worth remembering; inventing some excusethems, any sort, having a sevenply sweat of night blues moist upon them.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Transferring the thing from the Toyota's tailgate (dangerous _skreek_ of hinges) to the mover's cart threatened to give us all hernias.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Wi 'a mind tae keep the sabbath, sae I thought I'd try a hymn, but I got an awful skreek, no' a doo a durn a diddle

    The Boy Who Put the Butter on the Old Man's Bow 1997

  • So I tried another key, but the skreek was worse than ever,

    The Boy Who Put the Butter on the Old Man's Bow 1997

  • The gulls were going berserk, skreek-ing and chattering, fighting each other for scraps in midair, swooping in and taking the food from her fingers.

    The Cat Who Went Underground Braun, Lilian Jackson 1989

  • In another moment he would have knocked at the kitchen door, but the _skreek_ of a bucksaw from the woodshed led him aside.

    The Turtles of Tasman Jack London 1896

  • Johnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek.

    The Turtles of Tasman Jack London 1896

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