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English
Etymology
From squail + -er.
Noun
squailer (plural squailers)
- A weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.
1962 [1939], George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz, page 56 (in Penguin edition):They [the boys] all had catapults and squailers […]. In summer they used to go fishing and bird-nesting.
Usage notes
- The wilder boys raged around the neighbourhood in gangs 'with knobbed sticks and squalars, with jackets buttoned tight up to their throat, and a look of pluck and determination on their faces'. The squalar was a ferocious home-made weapon consisting of a piece of lead the size and shape of a pear with an eighteen-inch cane handle'
References
- George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire (1893)
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