quilletedadj.
/ˈkwɪlᵻtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkwɪlᵻdᵻd/ English regional (chiefly west midlands).
Of land: divided into quillets.
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quilleted1885
1885 A. N. Palmer Anc. Tenures Marches N. Wales 27 All the unquilleted fields that lie within the quilleted area.
1893 A. N. Palmer Hist. Wrexham IV. 102 The quilleted close nearest the town.
1961 Geografiska Annaler 43 183/1 A group of homesteads, set in small enclosures, forming a loose girdle pattern as it were, round an area of open and quilleted arable land.
1997 R. R. Davies Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr i. i. 29 It was also a landscape of quilleted, open fields and of joint cultivation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1885- clotburs
- clotbuster
- clotbusting
- clotcold
- clote
- clote-leaf
- clote-ridden
- cloteleaf
- cloteridden
- clotes
- cloth
- cloth cap
- cloth ears
- cloth of arras
- cloth of baud kin
- cloth of baudekin
- cloth of estate
- cloth of estate, state
- cloth of gold
- cloth of levant
- cloth of raines
- cloth of ray
- cloth of silver
- cloth of tars
- cloth-beam