QUARTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quartern mean? 

• QUARTERN (noun)
  The noun QUARTERN has 1 sense:

1. one of four equal parts

  Familiarity information: QUARTERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fourth; fourth part; one-fourth; one-quarter; quarter; quartern; twenty-five percent

Context example:

a quarter of a pound

Hypernyms ("quartern" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

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

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.); Half-quartern gin and cloves (Mrs. C.); Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)—the parentheses always referring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation, to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)