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• 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28, Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !

• Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
• 'Mang mis'ry's posts, whar I did sit, My tongue took sic a faltrin' fit, I thought the wee remains o' wit I had, was quat me1813, Hugh Porter, Poetical attempts, page 35:

Wales and Southwest England

• Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd.1700, Ta Paidia Tēs Kythereias; Or, King's Place In An Uproar, page 10:
• This cows' courant so excited the tinners' curiosity that they went up the hill till they saw the two men wrestling, with the women looking on; then they quatted (stooped) down in a brake of furze to watch the play without being seen.1870, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall:

• My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him."1838, Chambers's Journal, page 134:
• There it is, sir—Im blythe to be quat of it; pitch it from ye furder than I can see.1861, Mrs. Oliphant, The House on the Moor:

• “Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove.2009 October 1, Hilary Howard, “New Ways to Moisturize for Less”, in The New York Times: