1622 S. Ward Woe to Drunkards 22 The drinke or something in the Cup quackled him, stuck so in his throat that he could neither get it vp nor down, but strangled him presently.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 74 God knowes, thou art almost quackled with thy teares.

1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. iii. 172 I'm almost quackled; choaked, suffocated, as with smoak, or any strong vapour.

1806 R. Bloomfield Wild Flowers 47 Some quack'ling cried, ‘let go your hold’; The farmers held the faster.

1864 W. Warner Soldier's Suffrage 34/2 Quackling and strangling, he cried out. ‘Gentlemen, with your permission, I will take this Hell Fire out of my mouth, and pocket it, to light my pipe with!’

1865 Standard 19 Sept. 6/4 The verb ‘to quackle’ is used in Suffolk in reference to suffocation, when caused by ‘drink going the wrong way’, or by smoke.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia (at cited word) ‘My cough quackles me’. ‘He fanged her by the throat and nearly quackled her’.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 63 Quackle, to have breathing interrupted, to choke, as when drink goes down the wrong way.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. i. 5 Simple ducks,..quackle for crumbs from young royal fingers.

1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 13 Underneath..splashed and quackled the ducks.

1902 Manitoba Morning Free Press 3 May 3/2 The ducks quackling and the doves cooing and the birds chirping, all with a rustic simplicity.

a1959 L. Hughes Sweet & Sour Animal Bk. (1994) [16] What use Is a goose Except to quackle.

1997 Children's Playmate (Nexis) 1 Jan. 4 When the ducklings heard their father quackling, they waddled out to join him.