† quadrel Obs.
Also 7 -ell.
[ad. It. quadrello (med.L. quadrellus, OF. quarrel, F. carreau) square stone or brick, dim. of quadro a square: cf. quarrel n.1]
A square block, esp. of brick, and spec. of a kind of brick used in Italy (see quot. 1703). Also attrib.
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 358 Their Quadrells of peat, are made into that fashion by the spade that cutts them. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 457/1 A Quadrell Wall, that is a wall of Artificiall Stone, as Brick, Tyle, etc. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 232 Quadrels, a sort of artificial Stones..made of a chalky, whitish and pliable Earth, and dry'd in the Shade. 1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 80 A sort of Bricks larger than Quadrels, or common ones. |