quarrellus

1 quarrellus, ~a, ~um [OF carrel, quar(r)el, ME quar(r)el(le), prov. cairel; cf. et. ML quadrellus] 1 square-headed bolt or arrow (usu fired from crossbow or arbalest), quarrel; b (dist. acc. size). 1160 pro m quarell’ et apparatu arbelast’, ix s. et viij d. Pipe 2; 1174 in warnisone cast’ de Notingeh’ ‥ pro m quarlell’, iiij s. et vj d. Pipe 56; 1177 in custamento ducendi cccc ~os ad perficiendum opus de Merleberga, xxix s. et iiij d. Pipe 98; 1190 constabulario Lond’ c s. ad faciend’ grarlell’ et pilez et arbalest’ in Turri Lond’ Pipe 156; 1205 liberate Waltero de Insul’ tres balistas ligneas et mille quarellos bene pennatos et flectatos Cl 31a; 1266 comes petit sibi allocari ‥ fabricam de mille septingentis et septuaginta querellis ExchScot I 6; s1199 quidam armatus ‥ subito adveniens tetendit arcubalistam atque quoddam quarellum violenter direxit ad regem Oxnead Chr. 102; 1304 quendam servientem suum per ventrem cum cayrello letaliter vulneraverunt (AncC 14/135) RGasc III clxxvib; a1327 artillator, qui faciat balistas, carellos, arcos, sagittas, lanceas, spiculas (Reg. Aquit.) DuC I 422; 1343 de ‥ clxviij gerald’ pro springald’, iiij arc’ pro springald’ KR Ac 23/32 m. 1; de ‥ mcccciijxx xix gerold’ et ij magnis ingeniis Ib.; s1429 le pucell per utraque femora ictu garaldi transfixa est Bower XV 36 (= Extr. Chr. Scot. 226).  b 1242 cariari fac’ usque Portes’ duo millia grossorum quarellorum et quinquaginta milia gracilium quarellorum Liberate 16 m. 8; 1254 xxxiij li. Burdegalensium ‥ pro xj miliariis quarellorum ad unum pedem quod W. de Ch. ‥ recepit ad opus municionis in castro Gelosii RGasc I 391a; 1266 rex dedit E. filio suo ‥ quinque balistas ‥ et tres bokettos quarellorum, de quibus unum bokettum est ad ij pedes et duo ad j pedem Cl 83 m. 10; 1284 c milia de quarellis ad ballistas duorum pedum et c milia de quarellis ad ballistas unius pedis Cl 102 m. 11; 1305 in xij balistis ‥ . ‥ quarelli unius pedis: et in cc quarellis pro ballistis j pedis emptis ‥ xviij d. MinAc W. Wales 406; 1388 pro uno canone grosso, cum uno foramine pro lapidibus grossis, et x aliis foraminibus pro pellottis vel quarellis grossis (KR Ac 400/22) EHR XXVI 698. 2 square tile or brick (used in building cf. et. OED s. v. quarrel sb.1 sense 4. 1278 quarellorum de Flandria (KR Ac 467/7) Building in Eng. 140; 1279 in vj mill’ cc et dim’ calami empt’ ad hastilaria, muros, et quarellos contra yemem cooperiend’ KR Ac 467/7/4; 1287 in libera petra de Cadamo et de Reygate, dura petra de Eyllesford’, creta et quarell’ Flandr’ Pipe r. 26. 3 square- or diamond-shaped pane of glass (cf. et. OED s. v. quarrel sb.1 sense 3). de iij panis sex fenestre vitreate. et sunt in toto chapiterhous x pane cum quarellis, et quelibet pana iij orle W. Worc. Itin. 284. 4 ? sort of (square) cushion (assoc w. chair, bench, or sim. in quot.; but cf. et. OED s. v. carrel ‘sort of fabric’). [serviens hospitarii] debet ‥ stramenta lectorum erigere et componere, quarellos et cathedras, trestellos et mensas loco competenti ponere Obs. Barnwell 194; notandum quod stallum sive sedile abbatis ubi sessurus fuerit, semper ornetur quarello sive sit revestitus sive non Lib. Evesham 2; in medio ‥ ponatur subsellium cum quarello ubi abbas sedeat cum voluerit Ib. 70; 1398 duo paria bancalium cum octo carrelibus ejusdem forme Cl 242 m. 10.

2 quarrellus, ~a, ~um [ME quar(r)el(le)] , place from which stone is extracted (for building), quarry (cf. OED s. v. quarrel sb.2). 1198 quariatoribus qui trahebant petram de quareliis RScacNorm II 310; 12‥ litera ‥ pro sclatis fodendis per quarellum ejus de Corkry. ‥ ad fodendum sklat in quarelle meo de Corkry Reg. Tristernagh 70; 12‥ et sic descendendo de illo rivulo usque ad rivulum quarelli nomine Sulhok Reg. Aberd. I 30; licenciam ‥ querendi ‥ lapides wlgariter sclaytstayn dictos in quarella mea de Dalketh ‥ ad tecturam domorum suarum Reg. Newbattle app. xxi p. 307; 1327 in conduccione ‥ operariorum frangencium lapides in quarella de Haterbergh’ (Yorks) Ac. Sheriffs 49/12.