Quillet

Quick meaning: Quillet is a noun meaning A quibble, an evasive distinction.

Meaning

A quibble, an evasive distinction.

More Meanings

1. (now regional) A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.

Example Sentences

Hence it comes that such a pack of vile buffoons [...] intrude with unwashed feet upon the sacred precinct of Theology, bringing with them nothing save brazen impudence, and some hackneyed quillets and scholastic trifles not good enough for a crowd at a street corner.

There’s another : why might not that bee the Scull of a Lawyer ? where be his Quiddits now ? his Quillets ? his Caſes ? his Tenures, and his Tricks ? why doe’s he ſuffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about the Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his Action of Battery ? hum.

The single and only [Royal Wilding apple] tree from which the apple was first propagated is very tall, fair, and stout ; I believe it stands about twenty feet high. It stands in a very little quillet (as we call it) of gardening, adjoining to the post-road that leads from Exeter to Oakhampton, in the parish of St. Thomas, but near the borders of another parish called Whitestone.

Word Forms

• quillets

Synonyms for quillet

Depending on context, synonyms include croft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quiblet, quirk, quibble, quib, quippet, snatch.

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