Obs. exc. north. dial. Forms: 5 qwaryle, qvar-, qverelle, qwharrell, 5–6 quarel, (5 -ell), 6 qwarrel, Sc. querill, querrell, 7, 9 quarrel, 9 wharrel, wharl. [Alteration of quarer, QUARRER, perh. after prec.]
1. A place from which stone, etc., is obtained. = QUARRY sb.2
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 737/3. Hoc saxifragium, a qwaryle.
1483. Cath. Angl., 296/1. A Qvarelle of stone (A. Querelle of stane), lapidicina.
1500–18. Acc. Louth Steeple, in Archæologia, X. 71. Riding to the quarrel for stone.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. vii. 22. Wtheris … the huge pillaris greit Out of the querillis can to hew and beit.
1802. Louth Corpor. Acc. (1891), 55. That the Market for Sheep and Pigs shall be removed … to some place in the Quarrell.
1828. Craven Gloss., Quarrel, a quarry.
1873. Swaledale Gloss., Wharrel, a quarry.
1899. Cumbld. Gloss., Wharl, a stone quarry; a disused quarry. Seldom heard.
† b. Sc. The stone or other material obtained by quarrying. Also pl. Obs.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 251. He thirllit thaim … to win mettellis, querrellis, and to mak tild.
1661–73. Ld. Fountainhall, in M. P. Brown, Suppl. Decis. (1826), II. 535 (Jam.). To dig, win, work, and carry away coals, limestone, clay, quarrell.
2. attrib. as quarrel head, hole, man, mell, stone.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., ii. 367. When I am dede, bery me in gudeboure at the quarell hede.
1472. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 245. j qwharrellmell.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. iv. 149. All kynd of wapynnis … Wyth branchis rent of treis, and quarrell stanis Of huge wecht.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 3061. I lent my gossop my mear … And he hir drounit into the querrell hollis.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 379. At the Querrell Hollis, betuix Leyth and Edinburght.
1571. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1860), 351. John Heworthe of gatisheid … Quarelman.
