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SQUAILER
Etymology
Noun
squailer (plural squailers)
A weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.
Usage notes
• squalar a possible misspelling from William Morris, a Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, (1994, Faber & Faber, London)
The wilder boys [from Marlborough College] raged around the neighbourhood in gangs 'with knobbed sticks and squalars, with jackets buttoned tight up to their throat, and a look of pluck and determination on their faces'. The squalar was a ferocious home-made weapon consisting of a piece of lead the size and shape of a pear with an eighteen-inch cane handle'
Anagrams
• quailers
Source: Wiktionary
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