Squire

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

From Middle English esquire, from Old French, from Latin scutarius ("shield-bearer"), from scutum ("shield").

Full definition of squire

Noun

1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
3. A male attendant on a great personage.
4. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
5. A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
6. (UK, colloquial) Term of address to an equal.

Verb

1. To attend as a squire
2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protectionto squire a lady

From Middle French esquierre ("rule, carpenter's square"), from Old French esquarre ("square") See square.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
• 1598, Edmund Spenser,But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire,
  Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
• 1598, William Shakespeare, , V, 2, 474.do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.
• 1620, Robert Burton,"as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole,"
• 1628, William Shakespeare, , IV, 4, 348.twelve foot and a half by the squire.

Anagrams

• quires
• risque, risqué