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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.
While the skirl of bagpipes gets his blood pumping, it is nothing compared to the roar of a football crowd.
The water is still, yachts bob gently at anchor, and sea-gulls skirl through the sky.
Before the workers walked through the factory gates to the skirl of pipes, they were addressed by union officials.
At that moment, from the field the fox has just left, there's the skirl of a hunting horn.
Here, overlooking the harbor in an untried fortress, kilted pipers, drummers and dancers perform the bagpipe skirl of the islands' pipe band.

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