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Peer vs Squire - What's the difference?

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Peer is a related term of squire.


As nouns the difference between peer and squire

is that peer is while squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight or squire can be (obsolete) a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

As a verb squire is

to attend as a squire.

peer

English

(wikipedia peer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
  • * Coleridge
    • as if through a dungeon grate he peered
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
  • to come in sight; to appear.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • See how his gorget peers above his gown!

    Etymology 2

    From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
  • * Dryden
    • In song he never had his peer .
  • * Isaac Taylor
    • Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
  • # Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
  • A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
    • a peer of the realm
  • * Milton
    • a noble peer of mickle trust and power
  • A comrade; a companion; an associate.
  • * Spenser
    • He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make equal in rank.
    • (Heylin)
  • (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
    • Derived terms
    * peer-to-peer
    Related terms
    * peer assessment * peer review, peer reviewed * peer pressure * peerless * the Peers

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
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    • Anagrams

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    squire

    English

    (wikipedia squire)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) 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), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • 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, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

    Anagrams

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