Obs. rare. Also 7 quurt. [Of obscure origin.]
1. trans. To block, fill, or stop up (an opening).
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1009/1. The said earle … did leuie and build a new weere in the said aperture…, stopping, filling, and quirting the same, with great trees, timber, and stones.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 105 b. Tolet … three or foure shouels full of earth fall softly downe by the inner side of the floodgate, which will quurt vp his chinkes.
2. intr. Of a river: To be dammed back.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 152. Under it runneth the river Lo,… thwarted by a sandy banke, which forceth the same to quurt back a great way.
