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squatted, ppl. a.|ˈskwɒtɪd|
[f. squat v.]
1. Pressed down, crushed.
a1678Marvell Wks. (1786) III. 215 The nightingale..adorns With music high the squatted thorns.
†2. Bot. = sessile a. 1 a. Obs.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xix. (1776) 53 A compound Flower is an aggregate one, comprehending many Florets that are sessile, squatted, or without Peduncles.
3. Settled down in a squatting posture.
1818Keats Endym. i. 264 To surprise The squatted hare while in half-sleeping fit. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt (1899) 49 A squatted covey, taken by surprise, will often rise singly or in pairs.
4. Occupied by squatters. Also with in.
1963S. Cooper in Sissons & French Age of Austerity 46 The squatted-in camps were..a useful temporary stopgap for the housing problem. 1973Guardian 5 Mar. 6/4 Everyone dropped in on another squatted house. 1975Time Out 25 July 5/4 Islington Council is currently threatening to have electricity and gas supplies cut off to dozens of squatted houses in Finsbury Park. 1981Times 14 July 2/4 According to Mrs Jean Styles..only two flats are empty and two ‘squatted’. |