Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a square stone, brick, or tile.
- noun A piece of turf or peat cut in a square form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A square piece of turf or peat.
- noun A square brick, tile, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
square brick ortile ; aquarrel .
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Examples
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Rugged and shawled into a quadrel with a knob on top, she resembled some primitive totem and appeared to be perfectly immovable.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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