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Definition of 'squire'Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(UK|colloquial)
Verb
( squir)
To attend as a squire
- (Chaucer)
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
- to squire a lady
- (Goldsmith)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) See square.
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
* 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
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- as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
* 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
- twelve foot and a half by the squire .
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