- quartern-loaf
- a traditional English unit of weight for bread. A quartern-loaf is made from a quartern2 of flour. The finished loaf usually weighs somewhere between 4 and 5 pounds (very roughly 2 kilograms).
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quartern loaf — noun A four pound loaf, made from a quarter of a stone of flour • • • Main Entry: ↑quartern * * * quartern loaf, a large, round loaf of bread weighing about four pounds … Useful english dictionary
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quartern loaf — noun archaic a four pound loaf … English new terms dictionary
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