half-quartern

British  

noun

1. a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g

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half-quartern

"The —— Food Economy Committee were astounded yesterday at the secretary's report of a collier's family of six persons who consumed twenty half-quartern loaves in one week, averaging twenty pounds of bread per person."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

You are probably not aware that at bakers' shops in the poor quarters the price of the half-quartern loaf varies sometimes from week to week.

From New Grub Street by George Gissing

Part of Jorrocks's half-quartern loaf was bartered with the captain of an East Indiaman for a slice of buffalo-beef.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

Bindle with practical samaritanism went into the parlour and returned with a half-quartern bottle.

From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins

On this the sergeant ordered in breakfast for us, in the shape of a half-quartern loaf and two ounces of butter for every four recruits.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

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