Significados de quartern loaf en inglés

For breakfast I had coffee and a due proportion of quartern loaf.

And I find that a quartern loaf of wheaten bread, weighing 4lb.

The average price of the quartern loaf had been ten-pence three-farthings through the year.

Also left there, with a quartern loaf.

Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.

A quartern loaf weighed four pounds.

Bread had sold at a moderate rate all the year; the average price being eightpence halfpenny the quartern loaf.

Yet, even so, the price of the quartern loaf rose to more than fifteenpence, and we were brought to the verge of civil war.

On this the sergeant ordered in breakfast for us, in the shape of a half- quartern loaf and two ounces of butter for every four recruits.

You are probably not aware that at bakers' shops in the poor quarters the price of the half- quartern loaf varies sometimes from week to week.

Bottomley lays S. Coxall sixpennyworth that the price of a quartern loaf will be as low as sevenpence the best sort in two months-24thOct.

The bread and cheese amounts to 540 quartern loaves and 470 pounds of cheese.

We drank each of us a bottle of porter, and finished our half- quartern loaves with wonderful alacrity, Bill keeping us gladsome company.

Byron it was who, writing as though the trees sprouted quartern loaves ready baked, said of it (The Island 2 11):

"It was piteous to see them," she said; "only July, and the quartern loaf nearly three shillings, and meal four shillings a peck."