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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.
The demotic poetry of Robert Burns or the skirl of bagpipes at Highland gatherings are easily appreciated by immigrants.
And the stuttering, pseudo-Latino skirl of One More Tequila is entirely the wrong choice to close such an otherwise harmless record.
While the skirl of bagpipes gets his blood pumping, it is nothing compared to the roar of a football crowd.
At that moment, from the field the fox has just left, there's the skirl of a hunting horn.
At midnight he led all of us up and down the A64 to the skirl of the pipes, a memorable experience.

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