squarer
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
squarer
- comparative form of square: more square
Noun edit
squarer (plural squarers)
- One who, or that which, squares.
- (obsolete) Quarreler, wrangler.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- But, I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?