[f. as prec.]
† 1. One who shoots jerkily with the bow. Obs.–1
1545. Ascham, Toxoph., I. Wks. (1904), 59. If he giue it ouer, and not vse to shote,… he shal become of a fayre archer, a stark squyrter and dribber.
† 2. One who has or suffers from diarrhœa. Obs.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, I. iv. 11. It oftentimes causeth bloudie fluxes,… if we beleeue Galen and them which for this cause call the inhabitants of Paris, squirters.
3. One who squirts or plies a squirt. Also transf.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, III. vii. The Squirters were at it with their kennel water; for they were mad for the loss of their bubble.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., v. An over-dressed woman … at any rate … is better than the oil of vitriol squirter.
1878. Scribner’s Mag., Nov., 76/2. Joe Triford,… who was a mysterious squirter of ink for four days before he was found out.
4. An apparatus for squirting.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 21 Sept., 10/2. The patent oil squirter for calming the sea proved a failure.
