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What does skirl mean?

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Verb
  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
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Not a car horn or police siren could be heard amid the skirl of the pipes of the annual Tartan Day celebrations.
And the stuttering, pseudo-Latino skirl of One More Tequila is entirely the wrong choice to close such an otherwise harmless record.
Charlie Kennedy needs to give his pipes a skirl and lead the charge.
The water is still, yachts bob gently at anchor, and sea-gulls skirl through the sky.
Here, overlooking the harbor in an untried fortress, kilted pipers, drummers and dancers perform the bagpipe skirl of the islands' pipe band.
The skirl of the bagpipes provided a stirring backdrop, and his skin tingled with excitement.

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