Definition of "squail" []

• To throw weighted sticks at small animals; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. (verb)

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• "These easterly rains, when they do come, which is not often, come wi 'might enough to squail a man into his grave.'"
• "In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters" 1565, from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, tiny background figures can be seen throwing sticks at a tied-up goose in a game called squail."
• "These easterly rains, when they do come, which is not often, come wi’ might enough to squail a man into his grave.’"