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Cail

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Former name of Kayalpatnam obsolete
  2. 2
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To throw, pelt; to throw weakly. dialectal
  2. 2
    To tilt up or turn over in order to discharge a load. dialectal
  3. 3
    To move awkwardly or uncertainly; to gambol, kick out one's heels like a colt. dialectal

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from or related to Middle English kayl (“a blow, stroke”). Compare Middle English quale (“death, destruction”), from Old English cwalu (“a quelling with weapons, torment, a violent death, slaughter, destruction”).

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