Obs. Forms: 6 quarier(e, 6–7 quarrier, 6 -iere, -iour). [App. an alteration of QUARRY sb.4; see also QUARION.] A large square candle.

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c. 1550.  Document (N.). To cause the groomes to delyver to the groom porter all the remaynes of torches and quarriers.

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1581.  Styward, Mart. Discipl., I. 24. Their quariers and their cressets being light euerie one by it selfe.

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1604.  Househ. Ord. (1790), 305. Mortores, Torchetts, Torches, Quarrioures.

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1659.  Torriano, Doppione, a great torch of wax, which in Court is called a Standard, or a quarrier.

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