Quartern

Quick meaning: Quartern is a noun meaning (archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.

Meaning

(archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.

Example Sentences

In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.

Let those who used to gibe at diplomacy and cry out against armaments consider how our manufacturing population is to be employed when half our exports are gone how our crowded cities are to be fed when ten millions of our workmen are out of work and the quartern loaf is at a shilling how are our industries to be started when the banks are bankrupt and the Exchequer has to find interest on a war indemnity of two thousand million sterling.

Word Forms

• quarterns

Synonyms for quartern

Depending on context, synonyms include quarter, one-fourth, fourth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quarter, one-fourth, fourth, loaf, loaves, quart.

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