screaking

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noun

A shriek or screech.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of screak
nounscreaking (plural screakings)

plural screakings

  1. A shriek or screech.

    […] and his calls of the female would readily be mistaken by a stranger for the screakings of an ungreased wheel-barrow.

    1832, A Book of Ornithology, for Youth, page 154
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