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quarrel

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French querele (modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French querelle), itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, I complain”).

Replaced (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sacan by 1340 as “ground for complaint”.

Noun

quarrel (plural quarrels)

  1. A verbal dispute or heated argument.
    We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.
  2. A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.
    A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.
    • Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him. - Bible, Mark vi. 19
    • You mistake, sir. I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, scene 4
  3. (obsolete) earnest desire or longing.
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Verb

quarrel (third-person singular simple present quarrels, present participle (UK) quarrelling or (US) quarreling, simple past and past participle (UK) quarrelled or (US) quarreled) (intransitive)

  1. (intransitive) To disagree.
  2. (intransitive) To contend, argue strongly, squabble.
    • Sir W. Temple
      Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.
  3. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
    to quarrel with one's lot
    • Roscommon
      I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
    • Ben Jonson
      I had quarrelled my brother purposely.
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Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English as "square-headed bolt for a crossbow" c.1225, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French quarel (modern French carreau), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, the diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quadrus (“a square”). Related to quattuor (“four”).

Noun

quarrel (plural quarrels)

  1. A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
  2. A square tile; quarry tile.
  3. A square-headed arrow for a crossbow.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VII, ciii:
      Twanged the string, out flew the quarrel long, / And through the subtle air did singing pass.
    • Sir John Mandeville (c.1350)
      to shoot with arrows and quarrel
    • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
      two arblasts, […] with windlaces and quarrels
    • 1829, Edward Augustus Kendall, The Olio or Museum of Entertainment, Vol.III, p.174
      The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold at the battle of Hastings, […].
    • 2000. George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Part 2, p.379
      Satin scooped up his crossbow and sent a few quarrels after them as they ran, to see them off the faster.
  4. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
  5. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.
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