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squinter|ˈskwɪntə(r)|
[f. squint v.]
1. One who squints. Also fig.
1738Corr. betw. C'tess Hartford & C'tess Pomfret (1805) I. 32 He bestows them on such a squinter as thou, and on such a halting cripple as myself. 1771Warton Oxford Newsman Poet. Wks. 1802 II. 217 Nor more..The triumphs of the patriot Squinter..Shall croud each column of our Journal. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 662, I was now a squinter{ddd}I squinted like an owl. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome vi. 280 The son of Triar, or the ‘Squinter’, as he was sometimes called, one of the best captains of the age.
2. A squint eye.
1873Blackmore C. Nowell xliii. (1883) 284 The cunning gleam from the black deep ambushed squinters. |