quarter-sack
noun
(Originally) a sack capable of holding a quarter of grain, etc.; (later) one quarter of a sack of a specified or standard size, or the contents of this.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Thomas Hoccleve (c1367–1426), poet and clerk.
- primogeniturist
- primo-primitive
- primordial
- primordial cell
- primordialism
- primordiality
- primordially
- primordial meristem
- primordial soup
- primordial utricle
- primordium
- primores
- Primorsky
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- primo tenore
- primo tenore assoluto
- primo uomo
- primp
- primprint
- primrose
- primrosed
- Primrose Day
- Primrose League
- Primrose Leaguer