"shail" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Old English sceolh: askew, awry, oblique, slanted.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shails",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "shail (third-person singular simple present shails, present participle shailing, simple past and past participle shailed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
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        },
        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The mysterious woman meandered up the street, shailing and leaning precariously at times.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876 [1593], anonymous author, Tell-Trothes New-Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice, &c., London: The New Shakspere Society, The Passionate Morris, page 82:",
          "text": "...some were amiable for favour, perfect of bodie, yet ill legged; other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Anianus, &c.] Fab[le] CCXXI. An Old Crab and a Young.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 193:",
          "text": "Child, (ſays the Mother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: Pray Mother (ſays the Young Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904 [1887], Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, page 80:",
          "text": "\"Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!\"\n\"She may shail, but she'll never wamble,\" replied his wife, decisively.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling."
      ],
      "id": "en-shail-en-verb-MxtIGtdx",
      "links": [
        [
          "walk",
          "walk#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "unsteadily",
          "unsteadily"
        ],
        [
          "haphazardly",
          "haphazardly"
        ],
        [
          "stumbling",
          "stumbling"
        ],
        [
          "shuffling",
          "shuffling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dialectal) To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Henry Bradley",
        "Oxford English Dictionary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shail"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Old English sceolh: askew, awry, oblique, slanted.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shails",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shailed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English dialectal terms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The mysterious woman meandered up the street, shailing and leaning precariously at times.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876 [1593], anonymous author, Tell-Trothes New-Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice, &c., London: The New Shakspere Society, The Passionate Morris, page 82:",
          "text": "...some were amiable for favour, perfect of bodie, yet ill legged; other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Anianus, &c.] Fab[le] CCXXI. An Old Crab and a Young.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 193:",
          "text": "Child, (ſays the Mother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: Pray Mother (ſays the Young Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904 [1887], Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, page 80:",
          "text": "\"Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!\"\n\"She may shail, but she'll never wamble,\" replied his wife, decisively.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "walk",
          "walk#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "unsteadily",
          "unsteadily"
        ],
        [
          "haphazardly",
          "haphazardly"
        ],
        [
          "stumbling",
          "stumbling"
        ],
        [
          "shuffling",
          "shuffling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dialectal) To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Henry Bradley",
        "Oxford English Dictionary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shail"
}