skirling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of skirl

   "And at ony rate , if he suld hear her skirling her auld ends oʻsangs , he's no to ken for that that there's ony body wi' her."

   1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

plural skirlings

1. UKdialectalA small trout or salmon.
2. Northern EnglandScotlandA shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

   When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

   1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life