1.  quarrel(n = noun.communication) dustup, row, run-in, words, wrangle - an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
is a kind of conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute
has particulars: affray, altercation, fracas, bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff, bust-up
Derived form verb quarrel₁

2.  quarrel(n = noun.artifact) - an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges;
is a kind of arrow

   quarrel(v = verb.communication) altercate, argufy, dispute, scrap - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
is one way to argue, contend, debate, fence
Derived forms noun quarrel₁, noun quarreler₁, noun quarreller₁
Sample sentences: Sam and Sue quarrel; Sam wants to quarrel with Sue

1.  An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head. [1913 Webster]
"To shoot with arrows and quarrel." [1913 Webster]
"Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels." [1913 Webster]

2.  Any small square or quadrangular member [1913 Webster]

3.  A glazier's diamond. Simmonds. [1913 Webster]

4.  A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end. [1913 Webster]

1.  A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses. [1913 Webster]
"I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant." [1913 Webster]
"On open seas their quarrels they debate." [1913 Webster]

2.  Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation. [1913 Webster]
"Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him." [1913 Webster]
"No man hath any quarrel to me." [1913 Webster]
"He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him." [1913 Webster]

3.  Earnest desire or longing. Holland. [1913 Webster]

1.  To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic. [1913 Webster]
"Our people quarrel with obedience." [1913 Webster]
"But some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed." [1913 Webster]

2.  To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight. [1913 Webster]
"Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust." [1913 Webster]

3.  To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot. [1913 Webster]
"I will not quarrel with a slight mistake." [1913 Webster]

1.  To quarrel with. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

2.  To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights. [1913 Webster]

   One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome. Shak. [1913 Webster]

quarrel, n. & v.
--n.
1 a violent contention or altercation between individuals or with others.
2 a rupture of friendly relations.
3 an occasion of complaint against a person, a person's actions, etc.
--v.intr. (quarrelled, quarrelling; US quarreled, quarreling)
1 (often foll. by with) take exception; find fault.
2 fall out; have a dispute; break off friendly relations.

Derivative:
quarreller n.

quarrel, n. hist. a short heavy square-headed arrow or bolt used in a crossbow or arbalest.

Etymology:
ME f. OF quar(r)el ult. f. LL quadrus square

N  discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.

VB  be discordant, disagree, come amiss, clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another, live like cat and dog, differ, dissent, have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with, fall out, quarrel, dispute, litigate, controvert, squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag, spar, have words, with, fall foul of, split, break with, break squares with, part company with, declare war, try conclusions, join issue, put in issue, pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on, sow dissension, stir up dissension, embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach, set at odds, set together by the ears, set against, pit against, get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl, kick up a row, kick up a dust, turn the house out of window, be discordant, jar.