Squire (Alan Hull album)
WordNet
noun
(1) An English country landowner
(2) Young nobleman attendant on a knight
(3) A man who attends or escorts a woman
verb
(4) Attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , from , from
Noun
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
Verb
Etymology 2
From , from See square.
Noun
- A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
- 1598, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V, 2, 474.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.
- 1620, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- "as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole,"
- 1628, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, 4, 348.
- twelve foot and a half by the squire.
- 1598, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene