What is "shrieker"

Usage examples of "shrieker".

He grabbed the chain of one shrieker, Orra, a plump scullery slave, and yanked her toward him.

Most continued to carve new detail into the landscape around them-hut some gave up on shapers altogether, and started running shriekers: brief loops of instructions which fed streams of pulses into the primitive networks which had grown up between the seeds.

Here and there, sheltered by the larger leaves were huge scarlet flowers which gave forth a cloying perfume and were shaped, Liara thought as she struggled along, not unlike the stripped skulls of shriekers tossed aside after the great day of annual slaughter.

The Eagle Rock Legion Hall still had a sign ballyhooing Friday night boxing, and my Central Division beat was still winos, rag suckers and Jesus shriekers.

Fafhrd still couldn't see what they were running from, and once more he thought of an army of invisibles—after all, he had only to imagine Ghouls with invisible bones—but then he noted that most of the shriekers and churners were looking downward toward their feet and the cobbles.

Fafhrd still couldn't see what they were running from, and once more he thought of an army of invisibles -- after all, he had only to imagine Ghouls with invisible bones -- but then he noted that most of the shriekers and churners were looking downward toward their feet and the cobbles.

How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing.

In order to preserve appropriate respect among the packs, the early Lords Baron instituted bodies of official Venerators to carry out the ritual duties required, including the breeding and sacrificing of shriekers.