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Trilled

adjective
1.
Uttered with a trill.  Synonyms: rolled, rolling.


Trill

verb
(past & past part. trilled; pres. part. trilling)
1.
Pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme 'r'.
2.
Sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below.  Synonyms: quaver, warble.





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"Trilled" Quotes from Famous Books



... lay-brother, Who seldom could smother Conception of mischief, or thought of a joke, Drew forth his old rebeck from under his cloak,— And touching the chords To brain-sick words,— While he mimicked a lover's phantasy, Upward rolling his lustrous eye,— With warblings wild He flourished and trilled,— Till mother and maiden aloud 'gan to laugh, And clown challenged clown more ...
— The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme • Thomas Cooper
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... quite dark now, but there were plenty of sounds that told of life. A Whippoorwill was chanting in the woods, a hundred Toads and Frogs creaked and trilled, a strange rolling, laughing cry on a marshy pond puzzled them both, then a Song Sparrow in the black night of a dense thicket poured forth its sweet little sunshine song with all the vigour and joy of its best ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
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... trilled Miss Hooker. "I have several medals for long distance swimming myself, and I taught myself when I was ...
— The Girl Scouts at Home - or Rosanna's Beautiful Day • Katherine Keene Galt
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... Whistling it calls, Shrilled through the pipes of the boatswain's four aids; Trilled down the hatchways along the dusk halls: Muster to the Scourge!—Dawn of doom and its blast! As from cemeteries raised, sailors swarm before the mast, Tumbling up the ladders ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville
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