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squarer|ˈskwɛərə(r)|
[f. square v.]
1. a. One who reduces wood, stone, etc., to a square form.
1422–3Foreign Acc. 1 Hen. VI, i, Carpentarii vocati fellers & squarers. 1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 29 Hewerrys of wode with axe and squarerys of tymbyr with chippynge axe. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Quadratarius, a squarer of marble. c1601J. Keymor Observ. Dutch Fishing (1664) 7 She imployeth..at Land..also Squarers of Timber,.. Carpenters, Shipwrights, Smiths. 1611Cotgr., Esquarrisseur, a squarer of stones, or timber.
b. With out (see quot.).
1611Florio, Squadra mondi, a squarer out of worlds, an Astrologer.
c. One who aims at squaring the circle.
1852De Morgan in Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 350 A squarer of the circle said to me..about some lines [etc.]. 1865― in Athenæum Oct. 504 The new squarer who advertises..that, having read that the circular ratio was undetermined [etc.]. 1879Fortn. Rev. Aug. 293 Mathematicians do not stop to argue with squarers of the circle or with reasoners that the earth is flat.
†2. A contentious or quarrelsome person. Obs.—1
1599Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 82 Is there no young squarer now, that will make a voyage with him to the diuell?
3. Sc. ‘One who squares his elbows for fighting; a sparrer’ (Ogilvie, 1850).
4. Electronics. A device that converts a sinusoidal or other periodic wave into a square wave of the same period.
1965Wireless World Aug. 402/1 If the square wave output is integrated and used to bias the first transistor, and if the squarer is d.c. coupled throughout and has an odd number of stages, then the feedback maintains the mark-to-space ratio constant. 1971Physics Bull. July 427/1 The basic module was an inverter and was demonstrated as a squarer, then two or more were joined together to produce various logic gates and multivibrators. |