A heritage apple variety name found in English dialect, particularly the West Country.
A heritage apple variety name found in English dialect, particularly the West Country. The quarrender (also spelled quarantine apple or quarter-hundred) was a small, early-ripening red apple prized for its sweet flavour. The name likely derives from French 'carreaux' (square), referencing the apple's somewhat flat shape.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A vivid English dialect past-participle, recorded in Somerset and Dorset glossaries, suggesting being thoroughly conquered by exhaustion — as if physically pressed down. Related to 'quank', possibly onomatopoeic of collapsing. Used in farming communities after harvest or heavy fieldwork.
(British) A large cooking apple.
(UK, dialect) A variety of apple that ripens early.
The tree on which large cooking apples grow.
She packed a quarrender in his satchel — they were the sweetest apples in the orchard that summer.
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(UK, dialect) A kind of red apple.
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