half-quartern

British  

noun

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

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half-quartern

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 Surtees, Robert Smith

"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

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

I asked what the trouble was, and was told the baker had refused to sell his half-quartern loaves under sevenpence, or his quartern loaves under a shilling.

From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)

Two half-quartern brans; pound of best fresh; piece of double Glo'ster; and, to wind up all, some of the richest sort you ever lushed!'

From Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles