A quillet has three possible meanings:
1 a furrow (in the North)
2 a croft or grassyard (Devon)
3 a little quibble (Shakespeare)
I found this in my dictionary of Archaic Words. I knew it would be useful
one day...
David Roberts
----- Original Message -----
From: <Peppett(a)aol.com>
To: <WLS-MERIONETHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:27 AM
Subject: [MER] Quillets of Land
Hi, can anyone please tell me what is a quillet. It was in a
marriage
settlement as a description of measurement along with acreage. For
example:
70 acres and 3 quillets. I've looked in dictionaries,
encyclopedias and
Google, but the only very vague description I could find was "a small
tube".
Even if this describes the tube-like shape of a piece of land, it
doesn't
tell me the size and I'd be interested to find out what it is, I never
heard
of it before. Any one? thanks, patricia davies in pa, usa.
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