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▪ I. ˈsquatting, vbl. n.
[f. squat v.]
1. The action of crushing or flattening. rare.
a1400E.E. Psalter cv. 29 Finees stode and quemed wele, And þe scatthinge [H. swacching, E. sqwattinge; L. quassatio] lefte ilkadele. 1703R. Neve City & C. Purchaser 161 When 'tis laid on Sand, a very little Squating, viz. by jumping upon it with the Heals of ones Shooes will dent it.
2. The action of crouching or sitting close to the ground.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxiv, So þat..at þe laste she be abyte with houndes notwithstondynge her rusyng, swattynge, and reiectynge. 1611Cotgr., Tapissement,..a lurking, squatting, lying close. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 17 The hare seems to have more various arts..to escape its pursuers by doubling, squatting, and winding. 1782J. Warton Ess. Pope II. x. 166 The squatting down among the dead bodies till Dolon had passed. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 116 The child in squatting or crawling, begins to lean its weight on its hands.
attrib.c1645Howell Lett. i. xxxii, I do not like those squatting unseemly bold postures upon ones tail.
3. a. The action or fact of occupying land or an uninhabited building as a squatter.
1832New England Mag. III. 199 Tenants..who occupied the land..under that prescriptive tenure which we quaintly term squatting. 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. II. 75 Squatting, that is taking possession of land belonging to government and cultivating it. 1880Silver's Handbk. Australia 146 But Victorian squatting is no occupation for the man of small capital. 1887Jessopp Arcady Introd. p. xiii, Days when squatting was not unusual. 1946Times 17 Aug. 2/5 A new form of ‘squatting’ is reported from Gravesend, Kent. 1969Guardian 27 Sept. 9/2 The Diggers will continue to support squatting by genuinely homeless families. 1976Times 21 May 2/3 We publicly would not yield to the left..on other issues, such as squatting.
b. attrib., as squatting district, squatting life, etc.
1845Disraeli Sybil ii. ii. (1863) 131 At the beginning of the revolutionary war, Wodgate was a sort of squatting district. 1847J. D. Lang Cooksland 268 The large extent of land occupied by each Squatting Station. 1859Cornwallis New World I. 155 Stations now were very different to what they had been in the early stage of squatting life. 1880Gentl. Mag. CCXLVI. 64 He..is now largely engaged in squatting pursuits in Queensland.
▪ II. ˈsquatting, ppl. a.
[f. squat v.]
1. a. Occupying land as a squatter or squatters.
1839W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 4 The losel Yankees of Connecticut, those swapping, bargaining, squatting enemies of the Manhattoes. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 25 Feb. 9/3 The numerous sub-tenants or squatting crofters.
b. Occupying an empty building as a squatter.
1963S. Cooper in Sissons & French Age of Austerity 44 One of the squatting families. 1970Guardian 12 Sept. 5/7 Last October the first four squatting families moved into flats which..had been empty for up to two years.
2. Sitting closely to the ground; crouching.
1871Daily News 5 Jan., Come nearer and look inside that ring of squatting men. 1883Congregationalist Oct. 848 Further digging uncovered two parts of the statue of a squatting man. |