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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1513
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Quar(r)el(l, Quer(r)el(l, -al, n.1 [ME (1340) and e.m.E. quarel(l, quarrel, early ME quarreaus pl. (Ancr. R.), OF quarel, quarrel etc. (pl. quarriaus, quareus) (mod. F. carreau), med. L. quarellus.] A quarrel, a short square-headed cross-bow bolt or arrow. — 1264 Exchequer Rolls I 6.
[Fabricam de mille … querellis 1265 Ib. 28.]
In emendacione mmm querrellarum, v s. 1513 Doug. ii viii 52.
Nowder stanys, nor quarellis [Sm. querellis, Ruddim. querrellis] with scharp hedis, Nor na kynd of wapynnys war sparit than 1513 Ib. ix vii 98.
The fleand schaft … smate Sulmonys scheild … Quharin the querral al in schuldir brak 1513 Ib. xi 4.
Querrellis 1513 Ib. x v 54.
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