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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.

💬 Quotations
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.

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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.

📑 Synonyms: carrel quarry
💬 Quotations
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.

📑 Synonyms: quarry

(Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.

📑 Synonyms: quarry

(obsolete, rare) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.

(architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.