squail

Updated: May 3, 2025

There, I could have told all the same that the wind was in the east, even if I had not seed poor Thomas Tribble's smoke blowing across the little orchard. Joints be a true weathercock enough when past three-score. These easterly rains, when they do come, which is not often, come wi' might enough to squail a man into his grave.

Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta

In this manner the burthen approached, yard after yard, until it was evidently drawing near the window. "It's the captain hoisting up the big baste of a hog, for provisioning the hoose, ag'in a saige," whispered Mike to the negroes, who grinned as they tugged; "and when the cr'atur squails, see to it, that ye do not squail yerselves."

James Fenimore Cooper - Wyandotte