Crossword clues for quartern
quartern
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.]
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A quarter. Specifically:
The fourth part of a pint; a gill.
The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf.
--Simmonds.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A quarter part; one fourth. 2 (context archaic English) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.
WordNet
n. one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one-fourth, fourth, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent]
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.