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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 'Squatting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squatting" Quotes from Famous Books

... battle of Cowpens[6] Colonel William Washington[7] fought on the American side, and Tarleton got badly whipped and had to run. Not long afterward he happened to see some boys squatting on the ground, with a lot of corn instead of marbles. They were playing the battle of Cowpens. A red kernel stood for Tarleton, and a white one for Colonel Washington. The boys shoved the corn this way and that; sometimes the red would win, sometimes the white. At ...

— The Beginner's American History • D. H. Montgomery

... summer breeze. I have seen a little thing convert a crew on the point of mutiny into a set of rollicking, good-natured souls who—until the wind veered again—would not hurt a fly. So with these. They spread themselves into a circle, squatting or kneeling or standing upon the white sand in the bright sunshine, their sinewy hands that should have been ingrained red clasped over their knees, or, arms akimbo, resting upon their hips, on their scoundrel faces a broad smile, and in their eyes that had looked ...

— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various

... judged it best under the circumstances to smother my resentment. An hour later I was eating one of the crows; and, as Gunga Dass had said, thanking my God that I had a crow to eat. Never as long as I live shall I forget that evening meal. The whole population were squatting on the hard sand platform opposite their dens, huddled over tiny fires of refuse and dried rushes. Death, having once laid his hand upon these men and forborne to strike, seemed to stand aloof from them now; for most of our company were old men, bent and worn and ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... eight, nobody entering their trench would have dreamed that the Hotwaters were going into a serious action in half an hour. The men were lounging about, squatting on the firing-step, chaffing and talking—laughing even—quite easily and naturally; some were smoking, and others had produced biscuits and bully beef from their haversacks and were calmly eating ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... and Churchill, squatting down by the fireplace and poking the burning papers with old-fashioned irons, not until then, when there began a conversation and other pairs conversed on certain points all around the room, did I gain a clear idea of just what had happened. What they said, the vital ...

— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

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