squier

squier (plural squiers)

1. 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.

“squier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Squire, quires, risque, risqué, squire

Old French escuier, from Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from scutum (“shield”)

squier (plural squiers)

1. 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.

• English: squire