squoil v also squail*, squile [phonetics unavailable]. Cp EDD squail: squoil Ha W 4 squailing 'awkward, irregularly shaped.'
1 To wear down a heel so that boot or shoe is mis-shapen; often with down, over.
1897 J A Folklore x, 211 'The heel of my boot is squoiled,' it is twisted and worn on one side. [c1900] 1978 RLS 8, p. 25 Squail or squoiled, gone one side on a boot heel etc. 1937 DEVINE 49 Squile. To turn over a shoe on the foot. P 118-67 Don't squile over your shoes. P 207-67 The heels on his boots were squoiled down. C 70-21 If they should get worn down on one side of the heel so that you couldn't walk in them properly, they were said to be [squoiled] over.
2 Comb squail-legs (fig.): pigeon-toed person.
P 127-73 She was a real old squail-legs.
squall's shoe: shoe worn down on one side.
P 127-73 She always wore squail's shoes.
