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Quillet sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quillet sb.1 Also 6 coylett, quyllett, 6–7 quillett. [Of obscure origin.]

1   1.  A small plot or narrow strip of land. Now only local or Antiq.

2 1533–4.  Act 25 Hen. VIII., c. 13 § 10. No maner person … shall take in ferme … any quillettes of landes or pastures.

3 1538.  Leland, Itin., IV. 82 § 2. Impropriating Benefices unto them and giving them Coyletts of Land.

4 c. 1640.  J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 151. Reducinge his scattered quillets of ground togeather into entire enclosures.

5 1774.  T. West, Antiq. Furness, p. xlv. The abbots of Furness permitted the inhabitants to enclose quillets to their houses.

6 1824.  Heber, Jrnl., 9 Aug. Each quillet … had its little stage and shed for the watchman.

7 1888.  Archæolog. Rev., March, 17. The fields … in North Wales are still, in many cases, divided into … ’quillets,’ that is to say, into open strips marked off from each other merely by boundary stones.

8   † 2.  A hamlet. Obs. rare–1.

9 1597–8.  Act 39 Eliz., c. 25. The sayde Hundred doth consiste onely of five small villages and thre small Quyllettes or Hamlettes.

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