单词 | squailer |
释义 | squailern. Originally south-western dialect. A loaded stick, esp. used for throwing at small game or apples. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > stick squailer1847 squail1899 the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throwing missiles > a projectile > stick squailer1847 squoyle1863 squail1899 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1879 R. Jefferies Amateur Poacher iii. 48 For making a ‘squailer’ a tea-cup was the best mould. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 2/1 We used to use squailers at Marlborough... You held your squailer by the small end. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1847 |
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