v. Also 8–9 squeedge. [Strengthened form of SQUEEZE v.]
1. intr. To press; to make one’s way by pressure.
1782. Mrs. H. Cowley, Which is the Man? V. ii. Such clattering, and squeedging down the gangway staircase.
1852. C. W. Hoskyns, Talpa, xxi. Every time I see it [a plough], on stiff land, a-squeeging and pressing, and kneading its way along.
2. trans. To compress; to squeeze.
1787. in Grose, Prov. Gloss.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, lii. Can’t you be fond of a cove without squeedging and throttling of him!
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), II. 530. I went, and I was nearly squeeged to death.
