SQUAIL

Verb

squail (third-person singular simple present squails, present participle squailing, simple past and past participle squailed)

(intransitive, historical) To throw weighted sticks at small animals.

To throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Noun

squail (plural squails)

A disc or counter used in the game of squails.

Anagrams

• quails

Source: Wiktionary


Squail, v. i.

Definition: To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

17 June 2025

RECREANT

(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”


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