[f. as prec. + -LET.] A petty squire or small landowner; a squireling.
1832. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), III. 56. A Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and gigmanity. Ibid. (1862), Fredk. Gt., XII. xiii. (1872), V. 288. A man born poor: son of some poor Squirelet in the Ruppin Country.
1891. G. Peacock, Narcissa Brendon, I. 82. The little squirelets of the county would be proud to know him.
