squoylen.
English regional (southern).
= squail n. 3.
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1863 J. R. Wise New Forest xvi. 182 Squoyle in the New Forest..properly signifies a short stick loaded at one end with lead,..and is distinguished from a ‘snog’, which is only weighted with wood.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vii. 186 The throwing cudgel, or, as a Hampshire man would call it, the squoyle of the Egyptian fowler.
1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. (1889) 193 Even in England the fowler's throwing-cudgel is not unknown in country parts, where it is called a squoyle.
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