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: September 1, 2024
\SKERL\ verb
What It Means
Skirl means "to play the bagpipes" when the subject of the sentence is a person, as in "the piper skirled." When bagpipes are the subject (as in "the bagpipes skirled"), skirl means "to emit the high shrill tone of the chanter," with chanter referring to the reed pipe on which the bagpipe's melody is played.
// The attention of the parade-goers was fully captured the instant the bagpipers began skirling.
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