Meaning of Quart | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
2. Safety, soundness; health.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. A comune of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.
4. A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
5. A surname
6. Four successive cards of the same suit.
7. A surname:
8. Josie Alice Quart (1895–1980), Canadian senator
9. A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
   obsolete
10. The fourth defensive position; quarte.

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Examples

“A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.”

“Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.”

“[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.”

“Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.”

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