0 in the past in England, a man who owned most of the land around a village
1 to take someone places:
Skinner uses the plane to squire around bureaucrats.
2 (in the past in England) a man who owned most of the land around a village
3 to take someone places; escort:
Skinner uses the plane to squire around bureaucrats.
Her mouth, slightly open, discloses her teeth, as the squire's son awkwardly, sullenly thrusts a handful of strawberries toward her.
The squire's joke will demonstrate that the court, by virtue of its ironic detachment, can impose meaning on this world where the friar could not.
Even so, the squire's son refuses to give him one name.
The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter.
Of course, it was not just the community dynamics of squires, land agents, clergy, and village elites that determined local responses, but the size, landholding structure, and availability of employment.
The purchase price was double the open market value of the house, thus making this trifling episode a talisman for the squire's eagerness to control all that he surveyed.
There was a good deal of the squire about the father and son.
The rents from the latter helped expand the textile business, and the successful clothier-landowner rarely deserted manufacturing for the life of a petty squire.
