Obs. Also 7 -ell. [ad. It. quadrello (med.L. quadrellus, OF. quarrel, F. carreau) square stone or brick, dim. of quadro a square: cf. QUARREL sb.1] A square block, esp. of brick, and spec. of a kind of brick used in Italy (see quot. 1703). Also attrib.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 358. Their Quadrells of peat, are made into that fashion by the spade that cutts them.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 457/1. A Quadrell Wall, that is a wall of Artificiall Stone, as Brick, Tyle, &c.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 232. Quadrels, a sort of artificial Stones … made of a chalky, whitish and pliable Earth, and dry’d in the Shade.
1715. Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 80. A sort of Bricks larger than Quadrels, or common ones.
