Squailer

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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

Etymology

From squail + -er.

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