Meaning of Squire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2. A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
   obsolete
3. A surname originating as an occupation.
4. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
   error-lua-exec
5. A male attendant on a great personage.
6. A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
   historical
7. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
8. A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
9. A term of address to a male equal.
   UK, colloquial
10. An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
11. A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.

Equivalents

Examples

“A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.]”

“Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born, Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.]”

“Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.”

“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.”

“as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole, […].”

“twelve foot and a half by the squire.”

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