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Squail sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Squail sb. [Of doubtful origin: cf. SQUAIL v.2 and SKAYLES.]

1   1.  pl. The game of ninepins; skittles. s.w. dial.

2 1847.  in Halliwell (Somerset).

3 1883, 1883.  in Hampshire and Somerset glossaries.

4   2.  pl. A table-game in which counters or disks are propelled towards some mark by snapping.

5   App. introduced in 1857 by Mr. John Jaques, London.

6 1862.  Pollock, Pers. Remembr. (1887), II. 105. Drank tea with Faradays at Royal Institution, and played at squails.

7 1865.  Pall Mall Gaz., 12 June, 21. Squails, or some such frivolous game, often serves to banish ennui.

8   b.  A disk or counter used in this game.

9 1862.  Calverley, Verses & Transl., 16. Or anon … Urge towards the table’s centre, With unerring hand, the squail.

10 1900.  A. Upward, Eben. Lobb, 153. An overcoat … with a driver’s cape, and eighteen buttons, the size of squails, down the front.

11   3.  = SQUAILER. (See also SQUOYLE.)

12 1883–.  in dial. glossaries (Hamps., Berks., Wilts.).

13 1899.  Outlook, 7 Jan., 714/1.

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