Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, on the quarter; 45° abaft the beam.
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Examples
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Coerced confessions play a part in almost aquarter of all wrongful convictions nationwide.
Rashad Robinson: Innocent, But Forced to Confess -- To Murder Rashad Robinson 2011
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Coerced confessions play a part in almost aquarter of all wrongful convictions nationwide.
Rashad Robinson: Innocent, But Forced to Confess -- To Murder Rashad Robinson 2011
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As you are well aware, over aquarter of all Major League Baseball players are Latino, and almost 40% of your players are people of color.
Howie Klein: Taking a Stand On Major League Baseball...And on Raúl Grijalva 2010
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This is David Nicholson, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service, who is paid around aquarter of a million pounds a year and gets £37,600 "Housing Allowance"because rather like Mr & Mrs Ed Blinking Twat Balls he maintains that his residence is oooop North.
David Nicholson - 37K housing allowance and lots of lard. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Ourgovernmentwants togive away aquarter of a million British passports to foreigners every year.
Douglas Carswell MP on a quarter of a million savages coming to these islands every year. FIDO The Dog 2009
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The "fate of the butcher" was unknown, as were the fates of any unwittinghuman beingswithin aquarter mile of him.
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This week, awoman shot and killed a homeless man in Cincinnatibecause he asked her for aquarter.
WHAT HAVE WE BECOME? 2007
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Their value as a luxury in that empire has been estimated to be weight for weight in silver; the price for the best being of late years at Canton $40 per katy, or one and aquarter pounds.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1844
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SAN DIEGO - The agency that manages the state's electrical-service grid blamed its own personnel Tuesday for a blackout that left roughly aquarter-million San Diego County homes and businesses without power for about 45 minutes last week.
San Diego News 2010
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EPS were $0.43, more than the Thomson Reuters mean for aquarter.
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