Meaning of ashriek | Babel Free

Definitions

Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).

not-comparable

Examples

“For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song”

“She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.”

“1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!”

“[…] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls”

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