squailer

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noun

A weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.

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Meanings

nounsquailer (plural squailers)

plural squailers

  1. A weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.

    They [the boys] all had catapults and squailers […]. In summer they used to go fishing and bird-nesting.

    1962 [1939], George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz, page 56 (in Penguin edition)

Origin

From squail + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Squariel
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APA

squailer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squailer

MLA

“squailer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squailer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “squailer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squailer.

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