quarrel
A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
A basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!
(rare) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
(also figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.
To find fault; to cavil.
(obsolete) To disagree with; to take offense.
(obsolete except Scotland) To argue or squabble with (someone).
(archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (a late, large type of crossbow), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.
"What was that?" he asked, as a hissing, sharp-drawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear. The steersman smiled, and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy cross-bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards.
(architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
(Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
(obsolete, rare) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
(architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.