quillet

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A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field
A quibble, an evasive distinction

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.

{n} a subtility, nicety, quibble
A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill aruffle
quidebet, a subtle case in law
an oral quibble
The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn
The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili
A hollow spindle
Something having the form of a quill The fold or plain of a ruff
a small plot of land
A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle
Subtilty; nicety; quibble
quillet
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