squattle

Verb

1. To squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
   • They tarried about a week among us, living in tents, with their little ones squattling among the litter[…] - 1821, John Galt, Annals of the parish: or, the chronicle of Dalmailing […] , page 56:
   • Whenever they got to the water they threw themselves down and squattled into it. The moment they were in the water they acted just as if they were fishes. - 1877, John Timbs, James Mason, Year Book of Facts in Science...
   • He spread his face out in such a manner that there was nothing left but mouth; as a young cuckoo in a sparrow's nest, when his stepmother cannot satisfy him, squattles his empty body down, and distends himself into one...