squier
See also: Squier
English
Noun
squier (plural squiers)
- Obsolete form of square.
- Shakespeare
- Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.
- Shakespeare
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
Old French escuier, from Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from scutum (“shield”)
Noun
squier (plural squiers)
- squire (title for a male person)
Descendants
- English: squire