shrieking

English edit

From shriek +‎ -ing.

shrieking (plural shriekings)

gerund of shriek: an act of uttering a loud, sharp, or shrill cry or sound; also, a sound that shrieks.
- 1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron”, in Charlotte Porter and Helen A[rchibald] Clarke, editors, The Complete Works of Mrs. E. B. Browning, Arno edition, volume I, London: George D. Sproul, published 1901, →OCLC, page 105:
  Soon, 'midst the shriekings of the tossing wind, / The 'dark blue depths' he sang of, shall have bore / Our all of Byron to his native shore!

shrieking