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▪ I. † quartern, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 cweartern, -en, cwert-, cwiertern, 1–2 cwart-, quartern, 3 cwarrt-, quarrterrne, cwart-, quarterne.
[Of obscure origin, poss. an alteration of OE. carcærn, carcern, ad. L. carcer.]
A prison.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 39 Hwonne we þe seᵹun untrymne oþðe in quartern? c1000ælfric Exod. xl. 3 Þa dyde hiᵹ man on cweartern..and þæs cwearternes hirde betæhte hiᵹ Iosepe. c1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137 Hi dyden heom in quarterne. c1200Ormin 6168 Himm þatt i cwarrterrne liþ Forrbundenn. Ibid. 18187 Inntill quarrterrne worrpenn. c1205[see quale1 b]. a1225Leg. Kath. 670 Al þe cwarterne of his cume leitede o leie.
▪ II. quartern, n.2|ˈkwɔːtən|
Forms: 3–7 quartron, (4 -run, -roun, -eroun, quaterone, 6 -eren), 5–7 quarteron, (5 -eren, -rone), 6–7 quarterne, (7 coterne), 7–9 Ir. cartron, 9 quartan, dial. wartern, 6– quartern.
[a. AF. quartrun, OF. quart(e)ron, quat(te)ron, used in most of the senses of the E. word (see Godef.) f. quart(e, fourth, fourth part.]
1. A quarter of anything. Obs. exc. dial.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 476/510 With-inne a quartron of þe ȝere huy comen to Marcilie. c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 455 A quartrone of a pounde of pynes. 1547Boorde Brev. Health 20 Take of..greate reasons..a quartron of a pounde. 1587Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 159 She addeth..halfe a quarterne of an ounce of baiberries. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 287 Take of Hony a quartern of a pinte. 1647Will of John Clarke of Scawthorpe (N. W. Linc. Gloss.), Three quatrans of one oxgange of land. a1796in Pegge Derbicisms. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Quartern, a quarter of anything.
†2. ellipt. A quarter of something (esp. a weight or measure) already specified. Obs. Cf. 3.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 131 The pound that heo peysede by peisede a quartrun [v.r. quarteroun] more then myn auncel dude. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxx. 301 There is not the Mone seyn in alle the Lunacioun, saf only the seconde quarteroun. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 130 Sylk j lb. an unce and j quarteron. 1496Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 174 A Chalder and a quarteron of Smythes Coles. 1623Althorp MS. in Simpkinson The Washingtons (1860) App. 42, 2 barrells of neates tongues weight 100 and a coterne. Ibid. 45 For 3 pintes wanting di.a coterne of aquavitæ. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxix. 187 Weighing nine thousand seven hundred kintals and two quarterons.
3. A quarter of various weights and measures.
a. of a pound. Now rare. b. of an ounce. c. of a chalder, hundredweight, etc. Now only dial. † d. = quarter 4 a. e. of a stone or peck. † f. of some measure of land; in Ireland = quarter 7 c, or the fourth part of this. g. of a pint.
a. [1326Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 15 In uno quarteroun croci, 16½d.] c1400Master of Game xii. (MS. Digby 182), Take ye vi poundes of hony, and a quartron of vertgrece. c1450ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 173 Tak þre quarterons of clene rosyn, & a quateron of good perrosyn, & half a pounde of good oile de olyue. 1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 12 b, Bye me a halfe pounde of saffron, a quarteren of cynamon. 1754–6Connoisseur No. 76 At every petty Chandler's shop in town, while the half quarterns of tea are weighed out. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales iv, He dispensed tea and coffee by the quartern, retailed sugar by the ounce. 1878Cumbld. Gloss. Suppl., Quartern, a quarter of a pound of flax ready for being spun.
b.1607T. Cocks Diary (1901) 5/6 Paide for a quartern of sylke 4d. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. (1864) II. viii. 193 That surly old foreman says..‘What d'ye leave for silk?.. There's two quarterns down’.
c.1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 230, iiij quarterons salte. 1590Recorde, etc. Gr. Arts (1646) 134 There bee greater weights, which are called a hundred, halfe a hundred, and a quarterne, and also a halfe quarterne. 1883Almondb. & Huddersf. Gloss., Wartern, i.e. a quartern, a weight of woolen warp which is, when complete, twenty-four or twenty-five pounds.
d.1583in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 234, 53 quarterns, 3 bushells of malt.
e.1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales iv, Applicants for..half⁓quarterns of bread.
f.1679Blount Anc. Tenures 3 Each [bondman] held one Messuage, and one Quartron of Land. 1683J. Keogh Acc. Roscommon in O'Donovan Tribes Hy-Fiachraich (1844) 454 The lands here are generally set and let..by the name of quarters, cartrons, and gnieves, a quarter being the fourth part of a townland..and a cartron..the fourth part of a quarter. 1883[see quarter 7 c].
g.1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Quartern, a sort of Measure, the fourth part of a Pint. 1762Smollett Sir L. Greaves (1793) II. xvii. 90 The waiter..returned with a quartern of brandy. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxii, There is my mother with a quartern of gin before her. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. 132 Liquid Madness [Gin] sold at ten-pence the quartern.
†4. A quarter of a hundred; twenty-five. quartern-book: (see quot. 1584). Obs.
1472–3Rolls Parlt. VI. 37/2 Item, C of Milwell and Lyng drye; Item, a quartern of Mersaunte Lyng. 1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 12 The xxv orders of Knaves, other⁓wise called a quarterne of Knaves. 1584Star Chamb. Decree (1863) 15 Any Stationer that shall bye a quarterne at ones or more; which quartern is xxv bokes, in which case the byer hath alwaie a quarterne boke given him freely, that is to saie, one boke for everie xxv that he byeth. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) T.'s Water worke Ded., A Quarterne of new-catcht Epigrams caught the last Fishing-tide. 1650Trapp Comm. Deut. xvii. 4 The Catholikes follow the Bible (saith Hill, in his quartern of Reasons).
5. A quarter of a sheet of paper.
1821Southey Lett. (1856) III. 249 During the last year..at Westminster, one imposition served me:..it lasted till the appearance of the quartan might have betrayed its history. 1874G. W. Dasent Half a Life 232 This message, written on a ‘quartern’, that is, on a quarter of a sheet of ruled paper, on which we wrote our exercises.
6. A quartern-loaf.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. viii, That..loaf which is known to housekeepers as a slack-baked crummy quartern.
7. Comb., as † quartern-book (see 4); quartern-loaf, a loaf made of a quartern of flour, a four-pound loaf; † quartern-wind, a quarter-wind.
1592Greene Disput. 1 Thinke you a quarterne winde cannot make a quicke saile. 1812Examiner 24 Aug. 531/1 The price of the Quartern Loaf still continues at 1s. 8d. 1887Jessopp Arcady vi. 176 Ben has been seen to eat two quartern loaves at a sitting.
▪ III. † quartern(e a.
erron. forms of quartan, through assimilation to prec. Obs.
1548Hooper Ten Commandm. ix. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 373 Those..that bid the pestilence, the fever quartern,..or such other execrations. 1588J. Read Compend. Meth. 64 b, The dropsie, quarterne fluxes and strangurie. |