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Meanings of quartern in English

Catalan
quart
Spanish
cuarto

One of four equal parts.

      quart
      Usage of quartern in English
      1
      For breakfast I had coffee and a due proportion of quartern loaf.
      Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
      2
      And I find that a quartern loaf of wheaten bread, weighing 4lb.
      Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1
      3
      Drink-well, suppose a gentleman does take his quartern, is it a crime?
      No Defense, Complete
      4
      The average price of the quartern loaf had been ten-pence three-farthings through the year.
      Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
      5
      Hot rolls may say: "Fuimus panes, fuit quartern-loaf, et ingens gloria Apple-pasty-orum."
      The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
      6
      Say, six quartern loaves a week, one shilling sixpence?
      Burning up
      7
      BREAD Except quartern-loaves made of fine white flour!
      The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
      8
      One quartern best white, one half-quartern brown every morning, French rolls occasional; but it's all up now.
      The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
      9
      Also left there, with a quartern loaf.
      Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03
      10
      Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.
      Rodney Stone
      11
      A quartern loaf weighed four pounds.
      Burning up
      12
      Give us a quartern o' gin.
      The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
      13
      Bread had sold at a moderate rate all the year; the average price being eightpence halfpenny the quartern loaf.
      Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
      14
      The bread and cheese amounts to 540 quartern loaves and 470 pounds of cheese.
      Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
      15
      In less than three minutes she returned, bringing a "quartern" loaf and a large piece of cheese.
      A Tale of a Lonely Parish
      16
      This way.' He rolled into a gin-shop, and called for 'a quartern and two outs,' tendering Paul's coin in payment.
      Despair's Last Journey
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      Translations for quartern
      Spanish
      cuarto
      Quartern through the time