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  • noun Plural form of squarer.

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Examples

  • Over on the east coast the union squarers are talking about traction, and how they prefer to fund a web startup that has already beta'd.

    Yahbsoorbed Xoogling. Ben Barren 2006

  • Over on the east coast the union squarers are talking about traction, and how they prefer to fund a web startup that has already beta'd.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • And Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. — 1 Kings v. THE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • This enables the mediagents and squarers to prepare the way.

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

  • -- Worked from about 9.45 to 6.45, and again from 10.15 to 11.45 (making 101/2 hours altogether) at an idea which occurred to me of finding limits for _pi_ by elementary trigonometry, for the benefit of the circle-squarers.

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

  • In the Introduction, which, as is frequently the case, ought to be read _last_ in order to be appreciated properly, he relates his experiences with two of those "misguided visionaries," the circle-squarers.

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

  • Hiram sent masons and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen in their great undertaking, but did not send stones to Jerusalem, where, indeed, they were not needed, as these royal quarries abundantly testify.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • The trisectors, the circle-squarers, and the cube-doublers, had seen their long-flouted theories proved to demonstration by one of the most learned and responsible men of science in the world, and one of their most sarcastic and hitherto successful flouters had been compelled to confess that he could find no flaw in the calculations of this mathematical Daniel so unexpectedly come to judgment.

    The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • "Eccentric Literature" under which to group such books, -- the lucubrations of circle-squarers, angle-trisectors, inventors of perpetual motion, devisers of recipes for living forever without dying, crazy interpreters of Daniel and the Apocalypse, upsetters of the undulatory theory of light, the

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

  • At the present day, it would probably be impossible to find any sane advocate of this opinion; and the fact is rather surprising, that among the people from whom the circle-squarers, perpetual-motioners, flat-earthed men and the like, are recruited, to say nothing of table-turners and spirit-rappers, somebody has not perceived the easy avenue to nonsensical notoriety open to any one who will take up the good old doctrine, that fossils are all _lusus naturae.

    On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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