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ˈsquailing, vbl. n.
Also 8 scailing.
[f. as prec.]
The action of throwing a loaded stick (at a cock or other object).
1756B. Martin Misc. Corr. Jan. 229 Cock-scailing, Cock-fighting, Bull-baiting, &c. are of a criminal Nature. 1795Sporting Mag. VI. 157 The custom of squailing at cocks is very prevalent in the part of the country in which I reside [Ipswich]. 1825Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 31 Cock-squailing, a barbarous game, consisting in tying a cock to a stake, and throwing a stick at him from a given distance, so as to destroy the bird. 1847Halliwell s.v., Squailing therefore is often very awkwardly performed, because the thing thrown cannot be well directed. 1888Longman's Mag. XIII. 516 Birds'-nesting, egg-stringing, squailing at birds,..these of course were common. |