Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stable for horses.
- noun In the household of a prince or nobleman, an officer who has the superintendence and management of horses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
equerry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
equerry .
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Examples
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I realize agents are busy, but if you send a equery, it would take them no time at all to actually send a rejection.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Should You Query during the Holiday? 2007
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Because Miss Snark doesn't accept e-queries and I do, she kindly asked me to guest blog and see if I could answer your equery questions.
Archive 2006-03-19 Miss Snark 2006
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First off, I have to say I have no idea why you would save the equery-only agents for last.
Archive 2006-03-19 Miss Snark 2006
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There are some good places to get advice on how to write a good equery.
Archive 2006-03-26 Miss Snark 2006
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I congratulate you on knowing that equery agents don't want attachments.
Archive 2006-03-19 Miss Snark 2006
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I'd like to introduce to you a woman who wears stilettos but has never had a bunion, enjoys promenading poodles, reading Galleycat and listening to Bat Segundo, a woman who snaps like a terrapin at the thought of an equery, and whose form rejection says, 'your mother wears army boots.'
Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006
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An immediate response to an equery, even when it's a polite NO, gets a thank you from me.
Here's why you haven't heard back-1 Miss Snark 2006
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Most equery agents will also respond within a week or two.
Archive 2006-03-19 Miss Snark 2006
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Obviously you didn't read Ms. Snark's website closely enough to realize what she really wanted was your ms sent as an attachment along with your equery.
Killer Yapp here Miss Snark 2006
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Of course, there are some agents who don't respond at all but don't let them give equery-only agents a bad name.
Archive 2006-03-19 Miss Snark 2006
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