screel

noun

1. A discordant high-pitched noise.

   “The screams began as the usual long screel.”

   “Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.”

   “As for the Minimoog itself, it proved capable of creating whole new registers of possibility: a viscid bass that stirs the entrails, a tonal warmth that solicits well-being, a cringing static that conjures animal fear, a piercing screel that commands almost spiritual submission.”

verb

1. To emit a screel; to screech or skirl.

   “Katherine steps into the train and the sides hiss closed. Candlewax waves as it screels its way out of the station.”

   “The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.”

   “The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.”