cail
verbEtymology 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”).
1
Dialectal To throw, pelt; to throw weakly.
2
Dialectal, Of a cart To tilt up or turn over in order to discharge a load.
3
Dialectal To move awkwardly or uncertainly; to gambol, kick out one's heels like a colt.
- Derived terms
- cail along