screel

plural screels

1. A discordant high-pitched noise.

   The screams began as the usual long screel.

   2010, Sabrina Broadbent, You Don't Have to Be Good, →ISBN, page 150

   2 more examples

   Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.

   2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480

   As for the Minimoog itself, it proved capable of creating whole new registers of possibility: a viscid bass that stirs the entrails, a tonal warmth that solicits well-being, a cringing static that conjures animal fear, a piercing screel that commands almost spiritual submission.

   2016, Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, →ISBN, page 217

present singular third person screels · participle present screeling · participle past screeled · past screeled

1. To emit a screel; to screech or skirl.

   The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.

   2016, Melanie Tem, Out of the House of Darkness

   2 more examples

   Katherine steps into the train and the sides hiss closed. Candlewax waves as it screels its way out of the station.

   2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 98

   The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.

   2016, Elvi Joy, Soul Reaper's Mate, →ISBN, page 91