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Squabling, Sqwabeling, vbl. n. [17th c. Eng. squabling (1611).] Quarrelling. Also transf. of a thing. — 1667 Boharm Kirk S. 6 Jan.
Delaitted for squabling and drinking upon the Lord's day 1700 Kingarth Par. Rec. 211.
Delated … for flyting, squabling, fighting and casting firie turfs at each other on the Sabbath day —transf. 1682 Lauder Observes App. iv 305.
He had freely taken it in his mouth, … ther was no fault in him bot in its self, that it passed not, since it fell a sqwabeling, one part of it hindering another, fighting in his hasse, and if [it] wold have agreed in its self to have gone down all one way, he wold blaithly swallowed it, as he had done many untouthsome morsel before