local var. of SQUAIL sb. 3.
1863. J. R. Wise, New Forest, xvi. 182. Squoyle in the New Forest … properly signifies a short stick loaded at one end with lead,… and is distinguished from a ‘snog,’ which is only weighted with wood.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., vii. 186. The throwing cudgel, or, as a Hampshire man would call it, the squoyle of the Egyptian fowler. Ibid. (1881), Anthrop. (1889), 193. Even in England the fowler’s throwing-cudgel is not unknown in country parts, where it is called a squoyle.
