quail
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 →
2) To quail is to shrink back in fear, to lose courage. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the wilderness, God sent flocks of quail to the camp so the Israelites could eat meat. Interpretation: The tradition reads the quail as a gift that also tested the people, since at Kibroth-hattaavah their greed for meat brought a plague. In the primary lessons: in tales hunters catch quails with falcons; in the lessons «quail» means to cower or shrink from danger
examples
- And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew round about the camp. (Torah EXO.16.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps; and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. (Torah NUM.11.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven. (Writings PSA.105.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- The hunters shot two quails for supper. tree →
- The boy quailed at the sight of the wolf. tree →
- Do not quail; be brave. tree →
- The soldiers quailed before the giant. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «quail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.