Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo throw, pelt; to throw weakly. · To tilt up or turn over in order to discharge a load. · To move awkwardly or uncertainly; to gambol, kick out one's heels like a colt.
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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