quailing
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Pronunciation edit
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quailing
- present participle and gerund of quail
Noun edit
quailing (plural quailings)
- The act of one who quails, or draws back in fear.
- 1841, William D. Reider, The new tablet of memory, page 52:
- […] the old man, who had never before known the quailings of fear, was loath in such a tremendous gale to rush, as he considered on certain death.