Crossword-Solution: QUARTER
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| Quarter | n. | One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. |
| Quarter | n. | The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. |
| Quarter | n. | The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. |
| Quarter | n. | The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. |
| Quarter | n. | One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. |
| Quarter | n. | That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. |
| Quarter | n. | That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. |
| Quarter | n. | A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. |
| Quarter | n. | The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. |
| Quarter | n. | The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. |
| Quarter | n. | One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. |
| Quarter | v. t. | A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. |
| Quarter | v. t. | A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. |
| Quarter | v. t. | The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point. |
| Quarter | v. t. | Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. |
| Quarter | v. t. | A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. |
| Quarter | v. t. | Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural. |
| Quarter | v. t. | A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. |
| Quarter | v. t. | Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. |
| Quarter | v. t. | Friendship; amity; concord. |
| Quarter | v. i. | To lodge; to have a temporary residence. |
| Quarter | v. i. | To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. |
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Sentences with QUARTER (5)
Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn.
Well, with the money we buy a half-section from Linstrum and a half from Crow, and a quarter from Struble, maybe.
The industrial sector generates about one-quarter of GDP, and the growing services sector has become crucial to the economy.
From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
From father to son, for above a hundred years, they followed the sea; a grey-headed shipmaster, in each generation, retiring from the quarter-deck to the homestead, while a boy of fourteen took the hereditary place before the mast, confronting the salt spray and the gale which had blustered against his sire and grandsire.
Quotes with QUARTER (3)
It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still. "Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simila…
She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might se…
Finnik?” I say. “Maybe some pants?” He looks down at his legs as if noticing them for the first time. Then he whips of his hospital gown, leaving him in just is underwear. “Why? Do you find this”-he strikes a ridiculously proactive pose-“distracting?” I can’t help laughing because it’s funny, and it’s extra funny because Boggs looks so uncomfortable, and I’m happy because Finnik actually sounds like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell. “I’m only human, Odair.” I get in before …
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, Slate, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).