They understand admirably that we want a thing that will make a noise, music, in short; thereupon they offer us instruments of every, and of the most unexpected, shape-squeakers for Punch-and-Judy voices, dog-whistles, trumpets.
"Madame Chrysantheme Complete"
Pierre Loti Last Updated: March 4, 2009
At the age of six months, young pigeons are termed squeakers, and then begin to breed, when properly managed.
"The Book of Household Management"
Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Occasionally I have come across in the jungles a heap of branches and grass, and at first could not make out what it was, but the Gonds soon informed me that these heaps were the nests or lairs of the wild pigs, and they invariably turned them over to look for squeakers.
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale