quarter

A quarter of an hour.

One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.

And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see ….

I am to haste, / And all who under me thir Banners wave, / Homeward with flying march where we possess / The Quarters of the North […].

“I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”

“I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”

I was one morning walking the deck, when Rogers, whose watch it was, sitting upon the quarter, called to me in his usual style, ‘Come here, Bill.’

[…] at last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.

opposition to the policy came from an unexpected quarter, as well as from certain quarters which had historically opposed it

In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.

Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair, and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter.

Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….’ to the quarter.