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Webster 1913 Edition


Screak

Screak

(skrēk)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Screaked
(skrēkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Screaking
.]
[Cf. Icel.
skraekja
to screech. Cf.
Creak
,
Verb.
,
Screech
.]
To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

Screak

,
Noun.
A creaking; a screech; a shriek.
Bp. Bull.

Webster 1828 Edition


Screak

SCREAK

,
Verb.
I.
[This word is only a different orthography of screech and shriek, but is not elegant.]
To utter suddenly a sharp shrill sound or outcry; to scream; as in a sudden fright; also, to creak, as a door or wheel. [See Screech.]
[When applied to things, we use creak, and when to persons, shriek, both of which are elegant.]

SCREAK

,
Noun.
A creaking; a screech.

Definition 2024


screak

screak

English

Noun

screak (plural screaks)

  1. shriek; screech
    • 1898, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Boston:
      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

screak (third-person singular simple present screaks, present participle screaking, simple past and past participle screaked)

  1. shriek; screech
    • Mark Twain
      The 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”, in Chicago Reader:
      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”, in Chicago Reader:
      He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages.

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