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Definition of Squirters
1. squirter [n] - See also: squirter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squirters
Literary usage of Squirters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"One that plies a squirt. Water those with squirts of an infusion of the medicine
in dunged water. Bacon. 1 he squirters were at it with their kennel water, ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"The squirters were at it, with their kennel water ; for they were mad for the
loss of their bubble [victim], and that they could not get him to mortgage the ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... dark bank of Malancourt woods, which we know to be a busy hive of Bavarian
and Württemberg grenadiers, sharpshooters, flame- squirters, and gunners. ..."
4. Later Stuart Tracts by George Atherton Aitken (1903)
"The squirters were at it, with their kennel water ; for they were mad for the
loss of their bubble [victim], and that they could not get him to mortgage the ..."
5. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"... but very much to the fun of both squirters and squirted : proof that even
among hoosiers and all other wild men, "love laughs at locksmiths. ..."
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