a-square, advb. phr.
(əˈskwɛə(r))
[perh. a prep.1 + square.]
On the square; aloof, at a safe distance.
| c 1400 Beryn 586 Hym had been better to have goon more a-sware. Ibid. 596 That herd the pardoner wele, and held him better a square. Ibid. 643 The Pardonere..held him [right] a square, by þat othir syde. |