[f. SQUIRE sb.]

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  1.  A petty squire; a squirelet.

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1682.  T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 80 (1713), II. 242. Great Care is desired in the Matter, because the Squirelings need the Commodity [sc. wit] extreamly.

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1843.  F. E. Paget, Warden of Berkingholt, 31. The very thing to suit the idle tastes of a shooting, boozing squireling.

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1855.  Tennyson, Maud, I. XX. ii. Our ponderous squire will give A grand political dinner To half the squirelings near.

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1886.  Sat. Rev., 11 Dec., 789. She succumbed to the blandishments of a pecunious squireling.

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  2.  A young squire.

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1834.  Tait’s Mag., I. 439. The country squire … despatches his squireling to a neighbouring grammar-school.

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1834.  New Monthly Mag., XLI. 327. The academic squireling would have been promenaded over half Europe.

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