quartern
Example Sentences
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She lived on fragments of a quartern loaf and water 'in a pitcher,' with the mince-pie bought for her naughty little brother.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
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
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
Cut into eight half quarters a quartern loaf, two days old; it must neither be newer nor staler.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
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
