▪ I. quarl, quarle, n.1
(ˈkwɔːl)
[var. of quarrel n.1]
A large brick or tile; esp. a fire-brick, curved like part of a cylinder, used to form supports for melting-pots, retort-covers, etc.
| 1875 Ure's Dict. Arts III. 67 (s.v. Lead) The erection of nine six-ton pots requires..160 feet of quarles. 1883 Daily News 19 Sept. 3/2 Making passages below the oven floor, and laying upon these passages perforated quarles or recessed bricks. 1894 Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., Under the term ‘brick’ are included sizes up to twelve inches long by six inches wide. Above this area it is called a quarl or tile. |
▪ II. quarl, n.2 rare.
[? ad. G. qualle, Du. kwal.]
The jelly-fish, medusa.
| 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 156/1 And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back. |
▪ III. † quarl, v. Obs. rare.
Also 8 quarrel.
[Cf. quar v.2]
To curdle, ? turn sour. Hence † quarled ppl. a. (Cf. quarred ppl. a.)
| 1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. v. H ij, Moth. Are you so barbarous to set Iron nipples Vpon the brest that gaue you suck. Vind. That brest Is turnd to Quarled poyson. 1703 Art & Myst. Vintners 68 Take 2 pennyworth of Rice..and 2 pennyworth of Alum; this will keep your Wine from quarrelling, and make it fine. |
▪ IV. quarl(e, quar'le, quarled
see quarl n.1, quarrel n.1, quarrelled a.