Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈskwaɪə/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈskwaɪɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
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A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.]
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
Usage- error-lua-exec
A male attendant on a great personage.
A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
Usage- Historical
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Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born, Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.]
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
A term of address to a male equal.
Usage- UK usage
- Colloquial
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Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.
An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- Synonyms
- silver seabreamPagrus auratus
A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
Verb
To attend as a squire.
Usage- Transitive
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
Usage- Transitive
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More examples (1)
[O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.
Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.
To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.
More examples (3)
Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin’s, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her.
And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
A butch entered squiring a blonde whore tottering along on spike heels under dairy whip hair, her chubby hand rising again and again to tuck a stray wisp back into the creamy dome.
Noun
A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
Usage- Obsolete
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But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.
More examples (2)
as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole, […].
twelve foot and a half by the squire.
Noun
young nobleman attendant on a knight
an English country landowner
- Broader terms
a man who attends or escorts a woman
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Verb
attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire
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