quarl

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  1. A dialectal form of quarrel.
  2. In brickmaking, a piece of fire-clay in the shape of a segment of a circle or similar form: it is used in constructing arches for melting-pots, covers for retorts, and the like. The erection of nine six-ton pots requires 15,000 common bricks, 10,000 fire-bricks, 160 feet of quarles, 80 fire-clay blocks, and 5 tons of fire-clay. Ure, Dict., III. 67. The cover [of a retort] is usually formed of segments of stoneware, or fireclay quarls, bound together with iron. Spons' Encyc. Manuf., I. 156.
  3. A medusa or jellyfish. Some on the stony star-fish ride, … And some on the jellied quarl, that flings At once a thousand streamy stings. J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay, st. 13.

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  1. Prob. a contr. form of quarrel (applied, as square is often applied, to an object of different shape).
  2. Origin obscure.
 

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