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1. Small gallinaceous game birds
    
2. (game bird) the flesh of quail cooked for food

1. Draw back, as with fear or pain
   "she quailed when they showed the slaughtering of the calf";
   - flinch, squinch [N. Amer], funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, blench

Sounds like: quad, quail

Derived forms: quailing, quails, quailed

Type of: move, phasianid, wildfowl

Part of: bevy

Encyclopedia: Quail, Virginia