screeches

Noun

screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)

1. (countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
2. (countable) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
   • “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522
3. (Newfoundland, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
4. (uncountable) A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.

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