Quail

Definitions

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
2. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
   countable, uncountable
3. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
   uncountable
4. A prostitute.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Quail require⟳ little water, so there is no point⟳ to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel⟳ range.”

“Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]”

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