1. Engage in a heated argument or dispute
   "We quarrelled over the question as to who discovered America";
   - dispute, scrap, argufy [informal], altercate [archaic], row[2]

1. An angry dispute
   "they had a quarrel";
   - wrangle, row[2], words, run-in [informal], dustup [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal], dust-up, bust-up [informal], barney [Brit, informal], slanging match [Brit, informal], ding-dong [Brit, informal]
    
2. An arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
   "The medieval archer loaded a quarrel into his crossbow"

Derived forms: quarrelled, quarreled, quarrelling, quarrels

Type of: argue, arrow, conflict, contend, debate, difference, difference of opinion, dispute, fence

Encyclopedia: Quarrel