FluentPlex

quarrel

/ˈkwɔɹəl/ noun C2
  1. 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)
  2. A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window. (countable)
  3. A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively. (countable)

Plural quarrels

+ Save to review

From the library

Flutter and quarrel
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 20 · C1
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 64 · B2
“We had a quarrel.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 318 · C1
“If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives; for a whole day’s _tête-à-tête_ between two women can never end without a quarrel.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 32 · B2

Other matches

Learn quarrel in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.