Definition of "skirling"

skirling

/ˈskɜːlɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of skirl
  Quotations
  "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, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company
noun
plural skirlings
1. (UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
2. (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
  Quotations
  When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.
  1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life