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squailer

squailer noun: a weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.

Noun

squailer (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)

Forms of squailer

pluralsquailers

Origin of squailer

From squail + -er.

Questions about squailer

What does squailer mean?
Squailer means a weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.
What part of speech is squailer?
Squailer is a noun.
What is the plural of squailer?
The plural of squailer is squailers.

Words near squailer in the dictionary

  1. squads
  2. squaffle
  3. squaffles
  4. squail
  5. squailed
  6. squailer
  7. squailers
  8. squailing
  9. squails
  10. squalamine
  11. squalane

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