squail board (skwalbord)

The round board upon which the game of squails is played. n. squailer (skwa'ler), A kind of throwing stick, an improvement on that used formerly in squailing cocks or geese. part of Asia. squad1 (skwod), n. [(OF. vernacular esquarre, esquare, > ME. square ) people in general: usually somewhat contemptuous.-Awkward squad, a body of recruits not yet competent, by their knowledge of drill and the manual of arms, to take their place in the regimental line. squad1 (skwod), v. t.; pret. and pp. squadded, ppr. squadding. [ Squad your men, and form up on the road. Lever , Charles O'Malley, lxxxvi. ( Encyc . Dict .) squad2 (skwod), n. [Origin obscure; perhaps a dial. var. of shode , ult. sceádan , scad an , separate: see shode .] 1. Soft, slimy mud. [Prov. Eng.] -2. In mining , loose ore of tin mixed with earth. [Cornish.] squaddy (skwod'i), a. [A var. of squatty.] Squabby. [Old Eng. and U. S.] A fatte squaddy monke that had beene well fedde in some cloyster. Greene, News both from Heaven and Hell (1593). ( Nares .) I had hardly got seated when in came a great, stout, fat, squaddy woman. Major Downing , May-Day. ( Bartlett .) squadron (skwod'ron), n. [= D. escadron = Dan. eskadron , esquadron , F. escadron = Sp. escuadron = Pg. esquadrão (= G. schwa drone = Sw. squadron ), squadrone , a squadron, aug. of squadra , a squad, a square: see squad1, square1.] 1. A square. Sixe dayes journey from Bezeneger is the place where they get Diamants;. it is a great place, compa ed with a wall, and they sell the earth within the wall for so much a squadron , and the limits are set how deepe or how low they shall digge. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 221. 2. A body of soldiers drawn up in a square, or in regular array, as for battle; specifically, in Armed with squailers , an ingenious instrument composed of a short stick of pliant cane and a leaded knob, to drive the harmle little squirrel from tree to tree, and lay it a victim at the feet of a succe ful shot. Daily Telegraph , Nov. 30, 1881. ( Encyc . Dict.)