Definitions
Person of equal rank, or to look closely.
Word origin
From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
Used in a sentence
“[…] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;”
“As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face.”
“He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Equal in rank”4 letters
02“Equal or look closely”4 letters
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