quartern
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The weight of a quartern loaf, before baking, should be four pounds fifteen ounces; after baking, four pounds six ounces, avoirdupois.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
Well, say the best is a penny a quartern more—and the wife seems so satisfied because she thinks she is saving.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
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
But I know that by nightfall you could not have purchased a quartern loaf for elevenpence halfpenny within ten miles of Charing Cross.
From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock
As if all the speeches of all the fools in Staffordshire would lower the quartern loaf!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
