English Explanatory Dictionary

quartern

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A quarter part; one fourth.
  2. A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.

Word forms

quartern quarterns

Etymology

From Middle English quartern, quarteroun, quartroun, from Anglo-Norman quatroun (“quarter of a hundred”), from Old French quarter (“fourth”).

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