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One of four equal parts
Answer for the clue "One of four equal parts ", 8 letters:
quartern
Word definitions for quartern in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quartern \Quar"tern\, n. [OE. quarteroun, quartron, F. quarteron, the fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See Quarter , and cf. Quarteron , Quadroon .] A quarter. Specifically: ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one-fourth , fourth , quarter , fourth part , twenty-five percent ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A quarter part; one fourth. 2 (context archaic English) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.
Usage examples of quartern.
Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.
July, and the quartern loaf nearly three shillings, and meal four shillings a peck.
The drag Fiddler can toss off a quartern of Max without making a wry mug.
Paris deprived for so long of its Opera, became as sorrowful as if the arrivals of grain had ceased, or bread had risen to more than seven sous the quartern loaf.
All being, in this instance, the outside of enough, Tomkin retired to his pantry, there to fortify himself with a quartern of gin.