Apparently a compositorial misreading of quarred, past participle of quarv.1
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1629 T. JacksonTreat. Divine Essencei. 145 This current of life,..The more it is dammed or quarved by opposition of the sonnes of darknesse, the more plentifully it overflowes the sonnes of light.
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