quartern

The baker’s quartern loaf is indeed cheaper in the country than at Kensington, by, probably, a penny in the loaf; which would still, however, leave a saving of 5s. upon the bushel of bread.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett

I asked what the trouble was, and was told the baker had refused to sell his half-quartern loaves under sevenpence, or his quartern loaves under a shilling.

From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock

This John Bull is hacked to make a Corsican and Yankee holiday, taxed at the bayonet's point, starved on bread at eighteenpence the quartern, and offered up as a sacrifice to a Bourbon "Bumble-head."

From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson

"Half a quartern," stammered the boy, in a frightened voice.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken

And this yere was first the roial, half roial, and quartern aungel, and aungellet of golde.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas