skirl

A roll of a drum and the skirl of a fife came wafting across the valley on the April breeze.

His shout was dim under the hoot and skirl of wind: "If ye like it so well down here, then help us bail!"

The skirl of bagpipes shrilled from without—that exotic, half-barbarous sound now coming intimately into her life.

A swarm of mosquitoes buzzed in the glare thrown by the lamp with a shrill, attenuated sound like the skirl of far-away bagpipes.

And he himsel' looked round on me, like the devil he is; and, wi' a skirl o' a laugh, he strikes the lantern out o' my hand.