"cail" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: cails [present, singular, third-person], cailing [participle, present], cailed [participle, past], cailed [past], cale [alternative], kail [alternative], kale [alternative]
Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown, {{der|en|enm|kayl|t=a blow, stroke}} Middle English kayl (“a blow, stroke”), {{cog|enm|quale|t=death, destruction}} Middle English quale (“death, destruction”), {{cog|ang|cwalu|t=a quelling with weapons, torment, a violent death, slaughter, destruction}} Old English cwalu (“a quelling with weapons, torment, a violent death, slaughter, destruction”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cail (third-person singular simple present cails, present participle cailing, simple past and past participle cailed)
  1. (dialectal) To throw, pelt; to throw weakly. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-cail-en-verb-4rc6uoq6
  2. (dialectal, of a cart) To tilt up or turn over in order to discharge a load. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-cail-en-verb-d7mLTQzA
  3. (dialectal) To move awkwardly or uncertainly; to gambol, kick out one's heels like a colt. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-cail-en-verb-cIcSUPNr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 25 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 11 16 73 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 11 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cail along
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