Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, a square stone, brick, or tile.
  • noun A piece of turf or peat cut in a square form.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A square piece of turf or peat.
  • noun A square brick, tile, or the like.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A square brick or tile; a quarrel.

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Examples

  • Rugged and shawled into a quadrel with a knob on top, she resembled some primitive totem and appeared to be perfectly immovable.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

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