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adjective

Squat adj. (compar. squatter; superl. squattest)

Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. "Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve."

Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret." "The head (of the squill insect) is broad and squat."

noun

Squat n. (Zool.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

Squat n.

The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

A sudden or crushing fall. (Obs.)

(Mining)

(a)

A small vein of ore.

(b)

A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

Squat snipe (Zool.), the jacksnipe; called also squatter. (Local, U.S.)

verb

Squat v. t. To bruise or make flat by a fall. (Obs.)

Squat v. i. (past & past part. squatted; pres. part. squatting)

To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

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Etymology of 'Squat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squat" Quotes from Famous Books

... into town to watch, each lot led by its sultani in filthy rags and the foolish imitation crown his conquerors had supplied him at several times its proper price. The square was a dense sea of people before nine o'clock, and the askaris made the front few hundreds lie, and the next rows squat, in order that the men ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... turned, where a wire gate lay flat upon the ground, crossed a pebbly creek and galloped stiffly up to the very steps of a squat, vine-covered ranch-house where, like the Discontented Pendulum in the fable, ...

— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower

... again, and at length the squat log buildings of Pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night. Tired and hungry, we stabled our horses, ate a bite, and rolled ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... to lead the party through the intricate system of communication trenches to the front. Berger, who was a short, squat fellow with a sallow face and uneasy black eyes, took his seat ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

... lacquer box polished for generations. By nine all the fire and confusion had gone out of the sky, leaving wedges of apple-green and plates of pale yellow; and by ten the lanterns on the boat were making twisted colours upon the waves, elongated or squat, as the waves stretched or humped themselves. The beam from the lighthouse strode rapidly across the water. Infinite millions of miles away powdered stars twinkled; but the waves slapped the boat, ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

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