Meaning of Quarrel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
   countable
2. 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.
   countable, historical
3. Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
   countable
4. A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
   countable
5. A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
   rare, uncountable
6. A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
   Northern-England, countable
7. A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
   countable, obsolete, rare
8. A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.
   countable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.”

“And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.”

“Quarrels would not last long, if the fault was only on one side.”

“But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.”

“All quarrels halt at the grave.”

“A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.”

“I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.”

“I maruaile much my Lords what rage it is, That moues my people whom I loue ſo deare, Vnder a ſhow of quarrell good and iust, To riſe againſt vs thus in mutinies, […]”

“You miſtake ſir I am ſure, no man hath any quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere from any image of offence done to any man.”

“Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him [John the Baptist], and would haue killed him, but ſhe could not.”

“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!”

“The material is powerful, though more theatrical than realistic. The writing is good. On thinking the play over, however, I came up with a few quarrels with it, and I wonder if to some Rabe has not attempted to cover some weaknesses in construction with the sensationalism of shocking bloodshed.”

“If I can faſten but one cup vpon him, / With that which he hath drunke to night already, / Hee'll be as full of quarrell and offence, / As my young miſtris dog:— [...]”

“[A]ll beaſts and birds aſſembled; and forgetting their ſeuerall appetites; ſome of pray, ſome of game, ſome of quarrell, ſtood all ſociably together liſtening vnto the ayres and accords of the Harpe; […]”

“Twanged the ſtring, out flew the quarell long, / And through the ſubtile aire did ſinging pas, / It hit the knight the buckles rich among, / Wherewith his pretious girdle faſt'ned was, / It bruſed them and pearſt his hawberke ſtrong, / Some little blood downe trickled on the gras; [...]”

“Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.”

“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 [Godwinson] at the battle of Hastings, [...]”

“"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.”

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