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单词 quarnell
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quarnelln.

Forms: pre-1700 quarnell, pre-1700 quernall, pre-1700 quernell.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cornel n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of cornel n.1, influenced by quarrel n.3 Compare earlier carnel n.1, kernel n.2, crenel n., and the French words cited at these entries. Perhaps compare also quarrel n.1
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
In full quarnell stone. A squared or square-shaped stone.
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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. x. 62 This virgine horacia was buryit..in ane sepulture of quernell [v.r. quarnell] stanis [L. saxo quadrato].

Derivatives

quarnelled adj. (also quarnelt)
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1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 64 Item, ane small chene with thrawin and quernallit linkis.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Quarnelt, cornered, having angles, Fife.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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