Middle English Dictionary Entry
quaren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | quaren v. |
| Etymology | OF carrer, quarer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To cut up (sth.) into cubes; dice (sth.); ppl. quared as adj., of timber: squared.
Associated quotations
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.12 : Take rapus and make hem clene and waissh hem clene, quare hem, parboile hem.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)1664 : I wil þat þu a vessel nou make..It sal be mad of quarid tre.