quarter
noun
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided.
half-quarter
-
a word derived from
quarter.
Example Sentences
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In fact it will soon be necessary to complete the system by the admission of quarter and half-quarter tones until something better turns up!—
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
“The legislative half-quarter of the House of Commons!” indignantly exclaims Clement Walker—the “Montagne” of the French revolutionists!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Galen asserts that all animals that are born when the moon is falciform, or at the half-quarter, are weak, feeble, and shortlived; whereas those that are dropped in the full moon are healthy and vigorous.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
In 1721, an offer of 21s. per annum was accepted in lieu of the straw and rushes, and in 1744, the sum of 10s. yearly in place of the half-quarter of wheat.
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
Date of taking the rooms, February, 1882, at the half-quarter.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
