squier

See also: Squier

English

Noun

squier (plural squiers)

  1. Obsolete form of square.
    • Shakespeare
      Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for squier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology

Old French escuier, from Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from scutum (“shield”)

Noun

squier (plural squiers)

  1. squire (title for a male person)

Descendants
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