Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To crowd; compress; crush; squeeze.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Obs. or Low To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb now dialectal To squeeze.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Perhaps an irregular blend of screw and squeeze.

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