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† 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.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 358 Their Quadrells of peat, are made into that fashion by the spade that cutts them. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 457/1 A Quadrell Wall, that is a wall of Artificiall Stone, as Brick, Tyle, etc. 1703T. 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. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 80 A sort of Bricks larger than Quadrels, or common ones. |