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

1. Flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
    
2. Small gallinaceous game birds

Derived forms: quailed, quails, quailing

Type of: move, phasianid, wildfowl

Part of: bevy

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