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Squoyle. World English Historical Dictionary

Squoyle. 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. Squoyle local var. of SQUAIL sb. 3.

1 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.

2 1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., vii. 186. The throwing cudgel, or, as a Hampshire man would call it, the squoyle of the Egyptian fowler. Ibid. (1881), Anthrop. (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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