squier
See also: Squier
English
editNoun
editsquier (plural squiers)
- Obsolete form of square.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.
References
edit“squier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology
editOld French escuier, from Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from scutum (“shield”)
Noun
editsquier (plural squiers)
- squire (title for a male person)
- (c.1400) Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue lines 79 ff.
- With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER,
A lovyere and a lusty bacheler;
With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse.
Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.
- With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER,
- (c.1400) Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue lines 79 ff.
Descendants
edit- English: squire