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Squeak [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sharp shrill sound suddenly uttered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as a child utters in acute pain, or as pigs utter, or as is made by carriage wheels when dry, or by a pipe or reed.

Squeak [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To utter a sharp shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or to make a sharp noise, as a pipe or quill, a wheel, a door and the like. Wheels squeak only when the axle tree is dry.

2. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans, squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?

3. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses, the squeaking pigs of Homer.

4. To break silence or secrecy for fear or pain; to speak.

Squeak [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

Squeak [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.

2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Squeaker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that utters a sharp shrill sound.

Squeaker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, squeaks.

2. The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.

Squeaking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Crying with a sharp voice; making a sharp sound; as a squeaking wheel.

Squeaking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Squeak

Squeakingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a squeaking manner.