WordNet
n. one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one-fourth, fourth, quarter, twenty-five percent, quartern]
Usage examples of "fourth part".
I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
I have offered the fourth part of all my earnings to the crown, in the form of the riberry trees that sit in King Tehe-both's courtyard even now.
The term comes from an Old English word meaning 'quarter' or 'fourth part'.
For no sooner had but the fourth part of the mage's belongings been stuffed into the sack than this would-be conveyance ripped at a dozen places, disgorging its would-be contents back onto the floor of the study.
No doubt I could win her approval if I chose to sing a fourth part with her choral group.