Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loaf weighing, generally, four pounds.
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She found here a miserable straw-bed, a large black pitcher nearly full of water, and twenty-four pieces of bread, seeming as if a quartern-loaf had been cut in so many pieces.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 Various 1836
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