quillet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A quibble, an evasive distinction.

   “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.”

2. isim A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.