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Definition of Squailer
1. a throwing stick [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squailer
Literary usage of Squailer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"N. & SW ' The handle of a " squailer" projected from Orion's coat-pocket.
For making a squailer a tea-cup was the best mould : . ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"N. & SW ' The handle of a " squailer " projected from Orion's coat-pocket.
For making a squailer a tea-cup was the best mould : . ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"The Roe-deer that feeds on shoots of wild cinnamon. Rise up, oho, there !
Mamat the First-born, Rise up, oho ! and take your squailer,3 Take your ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1901)
"The 'Poacher' and his companion in iniquity were prepared for sport of various
sorts : ' Each of us carried a long hazel rod, and the handle of a " squailer ..."
5. The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies (1879)
"Each of us carried a long hazel rod, and the handle of a ' squailer' ... For making
a ' squailer' a teacup was the best mould : the cups then in use in the ..."
6. The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies (1879)
"Each of us carried a long hazel rod, and the handle of a ' squailer' ... For making
a ' squailer' a teacup was the best mould : the cups then in use in the ..."
7. The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies (1896)
"For making a ' squailer' a teacup was the best mould : the cups then in use in
the country were rather larger than those at present in fashion. ..."
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