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1. Carrel

1. A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.

2. (quote-book), comp.|chapter=Carol, or Carrel|title=A Glossary of Technical Terms, Descriptive of Gothic Architecture: Collected from Official Records, Passages in the Works of Poets, Historians, &c. of a Date Contemporay with that Style: And Collated with the Elucidations and Notes of Various Commentators, Glossarists, and Modern Editors. To Accompany the Specimens of Gothic Architecture, by Pugin|Agustus Pugin, – Architect|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=Printed for Taylor (English publisher)|John Taylor, Architectural Library, 59, (w); J. Britton, Burton Street; and A. Pugin, 34, Street, London|Store Street|year=1822|pages=2–3|pageurl=https://books.google.com./books?id=oFVDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT42|oclc=939430684|passage=Carol, or Carrel. A little pew, or closet, in a cloister, to sit and read in. They were common in greater monasteries, as Duram, Gloucester, Kirkham in Yorkshire, &c.; and had their name from the ''carols'', or sentences inscribed on the walls about them, which often were couplets in rhyme. ''Carola'', Low Latin.

3. (quote-book)|year=1860|page=257|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQwHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA257|oclc=931097473|passage=An exquisite south-east door is preserved; it is round-headed, of four orders, with a foliated label. A canopied carol or monk's seat, a Pointed crocketed arch within a square case, is seen beside it, succeeded on the south wall by an arcade of trefoiled arches with toothed mouldings.

4. ''Hence'', a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library.

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6. A square-headed arrow; a quarrel.