squoyle
Local var. of squail n. 3.
| 1863 Wise New Forest xvi. 182 Squoyle in the New Forest..properly signifies a short stick loaded at one end with lead,..and is distinguished from a ‘snog’, which is only weighted with wood. 1865 Tylor Early Hist. Man. vii. 186 The throwing cudgel, or, as a Hampshire man would call it, the squoyle of the Egyptian fowler. 1881 ― Anthrop. (1889) 193 Even in England the fowler's throwing-cudgel is not unknown in country parts, where it is called a squoyle. |