[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/quail.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / quail

[← Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/Q/)

# quail

«quail» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small bird like a partridge, which people hunt for food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (quails); verb (quails, quailed, quailing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quail is a small bird like a partridge, which people hunt for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#m1)

2) To quail is to shrink back in fear, to lose courage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales hunters catch quails with falcons; in the lessons «quail» means to cower or shrink from danger

### examples

- The hunters shot two quails for supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#x1)
- The boy quailed at the sight of the wolf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#x2)
- Do not quail; be brave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#x3)
- The soldiers quailed before the giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1901/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.