Squail

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

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  • v. To throw weighted sticks at small animals; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To throw sticks at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A disk or counter used in the game of squails.
  • n. plural A game in which disks or counters are driven by snapping them from the edge of a round board or table at a mark in the center.
  • n. plural Ninepins.
  • To throw a stick, loaded stick, disk, fiat stone, or other object at a mark: often applied to the throwing of sticks at cocks or geese on Shrove Tuesday, a sport formerly popular in England.
  • To aim at, throw at, or pelt with sticks or other missiles.
  • Word Usage
    "These easterly rains, when they do come, which is not often, come wi 'might enough to squail a man into his grave.'"