Noun | 1. | quarter - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" |
2. | quarter - a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter" | |
3. | quarter - one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter" | |
4. | quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock" | |
5. | quarter - one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas" | |
6. | quarter - a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter" | |
7. | quarter - one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter" | |
8. | quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) | |
9. | quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds) | |
10. | quarter - a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine" | |
11. | quarter - an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter" | |
12. | quarter - the rear part of a ship | |
13. | quarter - piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp | |
Verb | 1. | quarter - provide housing for (military personnel) |
2. | quarter - pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" Synonyms: draw and quarter, draw | |
3. | quarter - divide into quarters; "quarter an apple" | |
4. | quarter - divide by four; divide into quarters |
QUARTER. A measure of length, equal to four inches. Vide Measure.
quarter - Two bits. This in turn comes from the "pieces of eight" famed
in pirate movies - Spanish silver crowns that could be broken
into eight pie-slice-shaped "bits" to make change. Early in
American history the Spanish coin was considered equal to a
dollar, so each of these "bits" was considered worth 12.5
cents. Usage: rare. Synonyms: tayste, crumb, quad. See also nickle, nibble, byte, dynner. |