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Squarer   Listen
noun
Squarer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, squares.
2.
One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Squarer" Quotes from Famous Books



... A squarer tom, I swear, I never seen, In all me natchril, than this 'ere Doreen. It wer'n't no guyver neither; fer I knoo That any other bloke 'ad Buckley's 'oo Tried fer to pick 'er up. Yes, she was square. She jist sailed by an' lef' me standin' there ...
— The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke • C. J. Dennis
... eighteenth century the beauty of the Samplers distinctly declined. They became squarer, and were bordered with a running pattern, and the whole canvas became more or less pictorial. Inevitably the end of this art came. Ugly realistic bowpots with stumpy trees decorated the picture in regular order. The alphabet still appeared, ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes
... A very ordinary kind of young Northerner. He was remarkable only in having everything a little in excess of his type—a little squarer in jaw and shoulder, a little longer in nose and leg, a little keener of eye and slower of tongue. I'd never have looked at him twice, as he landed from the dirty steamer with a lot of tin boxes, if it hadn't been that ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... squarer, and more to my liking, than hiring somebody else to do it for you, Mr. Chadron. Ride on—I don't want to stand here and ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... how inferior this is in size and different in shape to that in a large lop-eared rabbit. In the latter, the infra-median process (b) is also proportionally much thicker and longer. The alae are a little squarer in outline. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever. And there was need of a square jaw and a battle-lit eye, for now began a period of guerilla warfare such as no New York paper had ever had to ...
— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... puzzled expression. He looked down at the sturdy face with its steady eyes, tightly gripped mouth, and chin which had suddenly grown squarer. ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... I would burn my study. But I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young squarer now, that will make a voyage with him to ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Knight edition]


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