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"in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"verbpull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
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"a quarter of a pound"nounone of four equal partstype of:
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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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"unemployment fell during the last quarter"nouna fourth part of a year; three monthstype of:
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"he dropped a word in the right quarter"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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"he fed four quarters into the slot machine"nouna United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollartype of:
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"it's a quarter til 4" "a quarter after 4 o'clock"nouna unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hourtype of:part of:
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"he surrendered but asked for quarter"nounclemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponenttype of:
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verbdivide by four; divide into quarters
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"quarter an apple"verbdivide into quarters
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"both teams scored in the first quarter"noun(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are dividedpart of:
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"the fall quarter ends at Christmas"nounone of four periods into which the school year is dividedtype of:part of:
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"the wind is coming from that quarter"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:
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back someone kill person part somebody soul draw period section mercy fourth tail individual division session coin rear quarters divide mortal ghetto lodge poop stern orientation fraction accommodate segment medina canton casbah barrio quarterly clemency kasbah billet mercifulness quartering draw and quarter fourth part one-fourth one-quarter quartern twenty-five percent simple fraction common fraction after part city district skid road time period period of time avoirdupois unit imperial capacity unit british capacity unit time unit unit of time academic session academic term school term piece of leather