Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 querre, 7 quarre. [Of obscure origin: ? cf. OE. á-cweorran to glut.] a. trans. To choke or block up (a channel or passage). b. intr. Of a channel: To silt or fill up. Hence Quarring vbl. sb.
1542–3. Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII., c. 9 § 1. The mouth and hole channell of the saide hauen is so heaped and quarred with stones and robull of balastes of the shippes.
1584–5. Act 27 Eliz., c. 20 § 1. Where also the said hauen of Plymmouth … doth dayly querre and fill with the sand of the Tinne-workes and Mynes.
1628. Sir R. Boyle, Diary, in Lismore Papers (1886), II. 257. Provided … he do nothing to the preiudice of my yron worcks, or stopping or quarreing vp of the River.
