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Flip (cocktail)
:— Put the Ale on the fire to warm, — and beat up three or four Eggs with four ounces of moist Sugar, a teaspoonful of grated Nutmeg or Ginger, and a quartern
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One-quarter - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
one-quarter: 1 n one of four equal parts Synonyms: fourth , fourth part , one-fourth , quarter , quartern , twenty-five percent Type of: common fraction , simple fraction the quotient of two integers
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werturn
ˈwerturn [var. of wartern, dial. f. quartern n.2 3 c (quot. 1883).] A particular weight of wool (see quots.).1853 Ibberson Woollen Manuf. Guide 13 Threads of slubbing, varying from 4 to 12 skeins per werturn. Ibid. 89, 1,520 yards are a standard skein. Six pounds, or 1,536 drams, are a standard wert...
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Charles Key
The family were largely dependent on poor relief under the Poor Law: in later life Key often remembered collecting 1s. 6d. and two quartern loaves of bread
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quartre
quartre quartrage, -redge, -ridge, quartron(e, -r(o)un, obs. ff. quarter n. and v., quarterage, quartern.
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John Younger (writer)
The countryside was a poor one, even before the black famine of the closing years of the eighteenth century, and while the quartern loaf stood at 2s.
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Edward Dando
Dando's April 1830 arrest followed his eating of ham and beef, a half-quartern loaf, seven pats of butter and eleven cups of tea, coming to 3s 6d, at On the day of his release he walked into an oyster shop and ate thirteen dozen (156) oysters and a half-quartern loaf, washed down with five bottles of
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quarterne
▪ 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.c 975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 39 Hwonne we þe seᵹun untrymne oþðe in quarte...
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quatroon
quatron(e, quatroon varr. or obs. ff. quartern, quadroon.
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Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor
Brown, a baker in Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, was to "give a Quartern Loaf to every Black in Distress, who will apply on Saturday next between the
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quartan
▪ I. quartan, a. and n. (ˈkwɔːtən) Forms: 4–7 quartaine, 4, 7 -ain, 5–6 -ayn(e; 4–6 quarteyn(e, (4 -en, 5 -ein); 5–7 quartane, (6 cart-), 6– quartan. See also quartern, a. [Orig. a. F. (fièvre) quartaine, ad. L. (febris) quartān-a fem. of quartān-us, f. quartus fourth. The mod. form is directly base...
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quatrain
quatrain (ˈkwɒtreɪn) Also 6 quadrain, -rein(e, -reyne, 7 -ren, -rin, -ran. [a. F. quatrain, † quadrain (Cotgr.), f. quatre four.] 1. A stanza of four lines, usually with alternate rimes; four lines of verse.α 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 13 Ane qvadrain of Alexandrin verse. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poe...
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crummy
crummy, a. (ˈkrʌmɪ) [f. crum, crumb n. + -y. Cf. also crumby.] † 1. Crumbly, friable. Obs.1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 69 [The Adder] loueth..to eate crummie and dry earth. 1611 Cotgr., Court en paste, short, crummie..ill cleauing together. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Waters, A quantity of crummy Eart...
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