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verbpull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
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nounthe rear part of a ship
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verbprovide housing for (military personnel)type of:
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nouna district of a city having some distinguishing charactertype of:
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nouna fourth part of a year; three monthstype of:
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nounan unspecified person
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nouna quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)type of:part of:
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nouna quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)part of:
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nouna United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollartype of:
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nouna unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hourtype of:part of:
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nounclemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponenttype of:
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verbdivide by four; divide into quarters
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verbdivide into quarters
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noun(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are dividedpart of:
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nounone of four periods into which the school year is dividedtype of:part of:
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nounone of the four major division of the compasstype of:
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nounpiece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamptype of:part of:
Examples of quarter
- "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
- "a quarter of a pound"
- "unemployment fell during the last quarter"
- "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
- "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
- "it's a quarter til 4"
- "a quarter after 4 o'clock"
- "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
- "quarter an apple"
- "both teams scored in the first quarter"
- "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"
- "the wind is coming from that quarter"