Word Meanings - QUARTERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.

• Pound/keeper
  The keeper of a pound.
• Quarter round
  An ovolo.
• Poundrate
  A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
• Quarterstaves
  of Quarterstaff
• Quarterstaff
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• Quartered
  of Quartter
• POUNDBREACH
  The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.
• Hundredfold
  A hundred times as much or as many.
• Quartering
  of Quartter
• POUNDKEEPERPOUNDKEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• Quarterage
  A quarterly allowance.
• QUARTERDECK
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Note: The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.
• Hundredweight
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoird
• Quarter-deck
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• QUARTERONQUARTEROON
  A quadroon.

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