quarrera

quarrera [ME, AN quar(r)er(e), OF quarrier(e)], ~ura [infl. by CL -ura] 1 place from which stone is extracted (for building), quarry; b (used as setting for public entertainment). c (as place-name, in quot. w. ref. to Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight). d land used or suitable for use as a quarry, ‘quarry-land’. c1199 culturam desuper domum Sercehaie ubi ~era est Ch. Chester 272; 1232 quia ~era ‥ arestata est, ut rex audivit, per quandam quercum ita quod stante quercu illa non potest continuari dicta ~era Cl 100; 1238 quod permittat canonicos de Lichefeld fodere petram ad fabricam ecclesie sue ‥ in quarera de H. Cl 46; 1300 in stipendio fabri emenda[n]tis utensilia quaerere de berleghe Fabr. Exon. 13 (cf. ib. 137: quarera; ib. 149: quarrera); xiij portitoribus in ~ura quolibet capiente per diem iij d. Ac. Linlithgow lxiv; 1315 de ~era in ‥ W. et de una acra terre super quam querra [sic] est ChartR 101 m. 12 (cf. CalCh III 258); sunt in eodem castro unum ferrum vocatum chisel pro petris frangendis in ~era precii ij d. Capt. Seis. Cornw 1; 1357 Thorne Bugy querenti petras in querrera pro parietibus circa herbarium ‥ prioris reparandis, iij s. Ac. Durh. 558; 1408 in soluto ‥ carectariis cariandis [sic] ‥ petras a querera de Teynton Rect. Adderbury 3; 1409 pro lucracione minere petre in querrura Ac. Forge Durh. 518; 1419 de lapidicina seu ~eris prope eandem villam quas ad opus nostrum specialiter reservamus Foed. IX 727 (cf. DuC V 545: quarruris; ib. 554: quaruris); 1464 querrera calcis ibidem reddit per annum xvj s. viij d. Feod. Durh. 130; 1532 soluti Americo Dande ‥ pro cariagio ‥ tegularum a ~era de Eysh Househ. Bk. Durh. 85.  b 1516 ad ludum et demonstrationem martiriorum Felicianae et Sabinae martirum in quarera post muros (Ac. Bailiff) Hist. Shrewsb. I 328 (= Med. Stage II 251) (cf. Med. Stage II 251: 1495 pro vino dato domino principi ad ludum in quarell).  c 1279 inquiratur de dampnis que abbas de Quarera sustinuit RParl Ined. 3.  d 1376 in j dimidia acra quarere empta ‥ xj s. Ac. Obed. Abingd. 29; 1442 empcio querrure: pro v rodis et v ulnis querrure petrarum emptis ‥ x li., in ij rodis querrure petrarum emptis ‥ lxvj s. viij d.; pro remocione et cariagio pulveris dictarum vij rodarum et v ulnarum ‥ vj li. xvj s. Fabr. York 56. 2 quarried stone, stone suitable or ready for quarrying (cf. OED s. v. quarry sb.2 sense 2). 1376 in sol’ facta quarerariis et aliis werkmannis frangentibus quareram et operantibus ad stagnum molendini et alibi Ac. Durh. 583. 3 (act of) extracting (stone or ore) in or as though in a quarry, quarrying. 1409 pro instrumentis ferreis ‥ faciendis, tam pro minere, petre, ferri ~ura, quam pro instrumentis ferreis [in] forgeo ‥ servientibus Ac. Forge Durh. 529.