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quartern

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quar·tern  (kwôrtrn)
n.
1. One fourth of something, especially of some weights and measures.
2. Chiefly British A loaf of bread weighing about 4 pounds (1.81 kilograms).
[Middle English quartron, from Old French quarteron, from quartier, quarter; see quarter.]
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Noun1.quarternquartern - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent, fourth
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers


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Mr Tappertit looked immensely big at a quartern loaf on the table, and breathed hard.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
This the drunken old chap, in a pair of list slippers and a nightcap, wot had offered--it afterwards come out--to make a hole in the water for a quartern of rum stood aforehand, and kept to his word for the first and last time in his life.
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