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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Quar'tern, n.

noun

n. [Lat. quartarius, a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill; Fr. quarteron. See QUARTER.]

  1. The fourth part of a pint; a gill.
  2. The fourth part of a peck. Simmonds.
  3. A loaf made of a quarter of a stone (14 lbs.) of flour; a loaf weighing about four pounds;—called also quartern-loaf. Simmonds.