half-quartern

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

"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

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

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

From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

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

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)