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 →

2) To quail is to shrink back in fear, to lose courage. tree →

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 →
• 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

• They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.