dial. Also quilty. [Of unknown origin: current in most S. and S.W. dialects.] trans. and intr. To swallow.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Obsequies, 52. With as intens’d a Zeal, As Saints upon a fast Night quilt a Meal.
1864. Blackmore, Clara Vaughan (1872), 49. I learned that to ‘quilty’ is the proper English for to ‘swallow.’
1893. Wiltsh. Gloss., Quilt, to swallow … used of swallowing in the natural way, while glutch is to swallow with difficulty.
