skreak

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Verb	1.	skreak - make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise" creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine make noise, noise, resound - emit a noise
	2.	skreak - utter a harsh abrupt scream skreigh, squawk, screak, screech cry, scream, shout out, yell, squall, shout, holler, hollo, call - utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"

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: twilight seagulls the skreak & skritter of light over the ball-

From Box Score: An Autobiography

Yes: Stevens, whom I found so vexing and perplexing, so given sometimes to cake-decoration, affectations in French, yet also capable of shedding any predictable music to write poems like "Dry Loaf" or "The Dwarf," which force you to hear music of their own, or "The skreak and skritter of evening gone.