What is "creakings"

Usage examples of "creakings".

Moon walked with Sparks, trailed by a discrete retinue, among the creakings and sighings of the restless ships, the dim, echoing voices of their weary crews.

As they came down they became audible as a complex of shootings and vast creakings and groanings and beatings and throbbings and shouts and shots.

Closer to hand were the now-unfamiliar creakings and settling of a building, the sounds of folk moving in other rooms of the inn.

What we had heard was a sound that didn't belong amongst the creakings of the frogs and insects and the fading calls of the day birds.

It occurred to me that I must be in a highly nervous state to let a few random creakings set me off speculating in this fashion - but I regretted none the less that I was unarmed.

The incessant sounds of the settling Pit, the soft creakings and tickings, filled the air like the whispered teeming of invisible sea creatures.

As he stepped back onto the array, Hatch heard a loud, agonizing complaint from a nearby timber, followed by a flurry of creakings that whispered quickly up and down the shaft.

Ugly they were, and in full swing they filled my ears with harsh creakings and groanings.

Tappings and clankings and strange rhythmic creakings awoke as the intrepid hirer pedalled out into the country.