To put oneself in the attitude of boxing, to quarrel. (Welsh, cwerʹ—i.e. cweryl, cwerylu, to quarrel.)
“Are you such fools
To square for this?”
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, ii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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