Quart

Quick meaning: Quart is a noun meaning (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.

Meaning

(card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.

More Meanings

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position; quarte.
2. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
4. (dialectal, obsolete) Safe, sound; healthy.
5. (obsolete) Safety, soundness; health.
6. (dialectal) Transverse.
7. (dialectal) Contentious or quarrelsome.

Example Sentences

Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.

A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.

[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

Carrados ought to have won the point and divided tricks, leaving his opponent a minor quart and a solitary trio—about 15 on the hand. By a careless discard he threw away both chances and the final score stood at 205-112.

Word Forms

• quarts
• quarting
• quarted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gallon, liter, litre, quarter, one-fourth, watch.

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