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▪ I. † shail, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also shayle.
[Cf. shewel.]
A scarecrow.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xxiii, The good husbande..setteth up cloughtes or thredes, whiche some call shailes [1557 shayles],..to feare away birdes.
▪ II. shail, n.2 dial. rare.
In 6 shayle.
[f. shail v.2]
A crooked gait; a shuffling, awkward manner of walking. First in a-shayle adv., moving or walking in a shuffling, awkward manner.
1530Palsgr. 831/1 A shayle with the knees togyther, and the fete outwarde, a eschays. 1887Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble.
▪ III. † shail, v.1 Obs. rare—1.
[An alteration of skail v. (perh. a scribal error; the MS. elsewhere has skail.)]
intr. = skail v. 9.
c1375Cursor M. 18836 (Fairf.), His hare..bi his eres shailande sumdele [a 1300 Cott. skailand].
▪ IV. shail, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.|ʃeɪl|
Forms: 4–5 schayle, 5 scheyle, (6 shoyle, scayle), 6, 9 shayl, 6–7, 9 shale, (7 ? shael), 7– shail.
[Possibly a metathetic derivative of OE. sceolh oblique.]
1. intr. To stumble, to walk or move in a shuffling, shambling manner.
a1400Morte Arth. 1098 Schovelle-fotede was þat schalke, and schaylande hyme semyde, With schankez unschaply, schowande to-gedyrs. c1440Promp. Parv. 443/1 Schaylyn, or scheylyn. (Disgredior.) 1483Cath. Angl. 332/1 To Schayle (v.r. Schaylle), degradi & degredi. a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 85 Our Thomasen she doth trip, our Ienet she doth shayle. 1530Palsgr. 700/1, I shayle with the fete, jentretaille des piedz. I never sawe man have a worse pace, se how he shaylleth. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. ii. (1567) 17 The Waine for want of weight..Did hoyse aloft and scayle and reele, as though it empty were. 1575Turberv. Venerie lv. 155 They [wild swine] set not their hinderfoote within their forefoote, and their gards fall straight vpon the ground and neuer shoyle or leane outwards. 1593Passionate Morrice (1876) 82 Other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxi. 193 Child [a young crab], (says the Mother) You must Use your self to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing so Every step you set. 1887Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 She may shail; but she'll never wamble.
b. fig. To blunder, be wrong.
a1529Skelton ‘Womanhood, wanton’ 19 Good mastres Anne, there ye do shayle. ― Col. Cloute 401 What, Colyne, there thou shales! ― Replyc. 172 Ye shayle inter enigmata And inter paradigmata.
2. ? To blink. rare—1. (See shailing vbl. n.)
3. dial.
a. intr. To glide or move in a slanting direction.
b. trans. To throw (a flat missile) with a gliding motion. [Possibly a distinct word.]
a.1895A. Patterson Man & Nat. on Broads 78 High over-head some great grey gulls are ‘shayling’ in erratic flight, making seaward.
b.1832tr. Tour Germ. Prince III. v. 127 It is also no rarity for some one to throw the fragments of his ‘gouté’..on the heads of the people in the pit, or to shail them with singular dexterity into the boxes. 1840Spurdens Suppl. Forby, Shail, to throw a flat missile, as a tile or an oyster shell.
Hence ˈshailing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈshailer, one who shambles in his gait.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xii. (Tollemache MS.), Þe scrabbe is schaylynge beste [1495 a sheylynge, 1535 shelynge, 1582 shelling beest] and gooþ bakwarde. c1440Promp. Parv. 443/1 Schaylare. Ibid., Schaylynge (or scheylynge, loripedacio). c1460Ibid. (Winch. MS.) 395 Schey, or skey, or horsys or schyttyl scheylere, idem quod schaylare, supra. 1530Palsgr. 266/1 Schayler that gothe a wrie with his fete, boytevx. 1611Cotgr., Fauquet,..a shaling wry-legd fellow. 1653Bulwer Anthropomet. vi. 106 The word..was Hippos, which signifies a perpetuall shaeling of the Eyes. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. vi. ii. 237 This is too narrow a path, for many shaleing professours to walk in now adays. |