verb
- makes a shrill, piercing sound
Usage: often used of bagpipes or wind
Examples
- The bagpipe skirls across the Scottish highlands.
- Wind skirls through the bare branches.
- The pipe skirls a haunting melody.
- She heard the instrument skirl in the distance.
- The storm skirls around the mountain peaks.
- His bagpipe skirls at dawn each morning.