Also 6 -ey, 7 -ie. [Later form of QUARREL sb.1, perh. after QUARRY a. or F. quarré sb. (see next).]
† 1. A square-headed arrow. = QUARREL 1. Obs.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, III. xlix. The shafts and quarries from their engins flie.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, 20. Out of the Towne come quarries thick as haile.
2. A pane of glass. = QUARREL 3.
1611. Cotgr., Rhombe,… a figure that hath equall sides, and vnequall angles; as a quarrie of glasse, &c.
1652–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., I. (1682), 145. They only open a little quarry of Glass, and presently shut it close again.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Quarry, Quarries, or quarrels, of glass, are of two kinds: viz. square and long;… the acute angle being 77° 19′ in the square quarries, and 67° 22′ in the long ones.
1733. Neal, Hist. Purit., II. 234. He took down a quarry or two in a quiet and peaceable manner.
1879. Mrs. Oliphant, Within Precincts (Tauchn.), I. iv. 62. This window was filled with old painted glass in … quarries.
attrib. 1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 158. For taking down Quarry-glass, Scouring it … and setting up again, the usual Price is 11/2d. per Foot.
3. A square stone, tile or brick. = QUARREL 4.
1555. Eden, Decades, 329. Al matters of hard compositions as quarreys and stones.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 379. Lying not … as the quarries of a Pavement, but as the scales of Fishes.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 179, ¶ 8. What Ground remains … is flagged with large Quarries of white Marble.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., II. xvi. Scoured deal, red quarries, and white-wash.
fig. 1593. Nashe, 4 Lett. Confut., 68. In a verse, when a worde of three sillables cannot thrust in but sidelings, to ioynt him euen, we are oftentimes faine to borrowe some lesser quarry of elocution from the Latine.
Comb. 1885. Census Instruct., 87. Brick-, Tile-maker … Quarry Layer, Presser, Maker.
