quat
IPA: kwɑt
noun
- (obsolete) A pustule.
- (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.
- (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
- Alternative spelling of khat. [A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.]
- Alternative form of quat (“quaternary ammonium”) [(obsolete) A pustule.]
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.
- (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.
- (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.
adjective
- (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.
- Quaternary.
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Examples of "quat" in Sentences
- Another group of people taken aboard are the Injuns, Lightfoot and Chee a quat.
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