• Screak

    Full definition of screak

    Noun

    screak

    (plural screaks)
    1. shriek; screech
      • 1898, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Boston Chapter , She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.

    Verb

    1. shriek; screech
      • Mark TwainThe awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
      • 1999, July 2, Richard Meltzer, Vinyl Reckoning, Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily.
      • 2003, November 14, Jeff Huebner, Coming Home, He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages.
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