Definition of "screaking" []

• Present participle of screak. (verb)

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• "The traveler had been staring at it for a while when it struck him that a gear in the draftsman should have been screaking; but everything was quiet, not the slightest humming could be heard."
• "When his boat snapped loose from its mooring, under the screaking of the gulls, he tried at first to wave to his dear ones on shore, but in the rolling fog they had already lost their faces."
• "Their farther conversation was in fact interrupted by a blatant noise which rose behind them, in which the voice of the preacher emitted, in unison with that of the old woman, tones like the grumble of a bassoon combined with the screaking of a cracked fiddle."