Definition of quarter

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Quarter (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds..

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Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist..
Statoblast :: Stative (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters..
Hutch :: Hutch (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters..
Semidome :: Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.
Cottise :: Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close..
Maximilian :: Maximilian (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter..
Quarter :: 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..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.).
Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
Quartern :: Quartern (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.)..
Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..
Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.
Section :: Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws..
Barracoon :: Barracoon (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily..
Three-quarter :: Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
Handygripe :: Handygripe (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting..
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