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- noun Plural form of
quart .
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Examples
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First of all, in order to make stock at home, you need a - really - large pot (anything less than twenty quarts is a waste of time, in my opinion – there is no sense in making only a little stock), which may or may not fit on your stove.
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Sigh. 20 quarts is out of question right now, but I thank you for the recipe.
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Now, even though it is only a two-quart model, all of the recipes in the little instruction booklet (which makes ice cream making sound a lot harder than it really is) that came in the box are for four quarts, which is not only excessive when I am talking about dessert for four people, but a physical impossiblity for my equipment.
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She has become a walking milk-machine, bred and tended to that express end, her value measured in quarts.
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I'm just a little concerned that 1.5 quarts which is all it'll make at one time will not be enough for all the adults to get some and also satisfy the greedy little mouths of the Entropy kids and their buddy Iris.
Archive 2005-07-01 Kate 2005
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Consumers can expect to pay 18 cents more for 750ml ( "quarts") and 340ml bottles of beer, around R6. 45 for 750ml of whisky, R2. 25 for 750ml of brandy and R1. 65 for 750ml of vodka.
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The injury was followed by very free hæmorrhage, mainly from the wound of entry, some 'quarts' of blood escaping; at any rate his clothes were saturated.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Most baskets can hold up to 30 quarts which is a fairly large bird.
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(_nepenthes_) are found here, the largest of which will hold two "quarts" of water.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Questions routinely involve inches and feet, miles and yards, ounces and pounds, gallons and quarts.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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