verb. (American).—To drink; to gobble; to choke: BARTLETT (1847): ‘provincial in England, and colloquial in America.’
d. 1639. SAMUEL WARD, Sermons, 153. The drink, or something in the cup, QUACKLED him, stuck so in his throat that he could not get it up nor down, but strangled him presently.
1837. CARLYLE, The French Revolution, II. i. 1. Simple ducks in those royal waters QUACKLE for crumbs from young royal fingers.
