local. [Of obscure origin.] A boggy or springy piece of ground.
1784. Young’s Annals Agric., II. 43. In many of their fields they are troubled with springs; they call the wet spots squalls.
1794. [see SPEW sb. 3].
1794. Griggs, Agric. Essex, 21. Where there are squails [sic], with sand or drift gravel, the passages are apt to choak in a short time.
