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n. (plural of wailing English)
Usage examples of "wailings".
He stood stock-still, the skirls and wailings on his pipes filling the air between them.
To me drifted only the wailings of our flight and the whimpering terror of the pony.
From without came a rising storm of thin wailings, insistent and eager.
The friends of the deceased, especially the women, repair here at sunrise and sunset for some time after his death, singing his funeral dirge, and uttering loud wailings and lamentations.
How much does this custom among the Indian woman of repairing to the hilltops in the night, and pouring forth their wailings for the dead, call to mind the beautiful and affecting passage of Scripture, "In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
They were warming me now, and the keening of the pipes and the wailings of the fiddles were pleasant after the brain-numbing twistings of the hellride.
The rumor that his were haunted, though, and the wailings I sometimes heard through the walls late at night dissuaded me.