half-quartern

noun

British a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g

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half-pipe, half-plane, half-plate, half-pound, half-price, half-quartern, half-quire, half-remembered, half-rhyme, half-right, half-rod

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Examples from the Web for half-quartern

Oh, sir—but do forgive me for making free to ask such a thing—if you would only let it be a half-quartern loaf instead?
Johnny Ludlow. First Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
Bindle with practical samaritanism went into the parlour and returned with a half-quartern bottle.
Adventures of Bindle|Herbert George Jenkins
Students of the half-quartern household loaf will appreciate the niceties involved.
When Ghost Meets Ghost|William Frend De Morgan
Davy Ramsay brought a half-quartern sack to put the treasure in.
Old and New London|Walter Thornbury

Among London thieves and low people generally a deadun is a half-quartern loaf.
The Slang Dictionary|John Camden Hotten

half-quartern

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