quart

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Small beets that run 40 to a quart are the most suitable size for first-class packs.

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  1. noun A unit of volume or capacity in the U.S. Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to 1/4 gallon or 32 ounces (0.946 liter).
  2. noun A unit of volume or capacity in the U.S. Customary System, used in dry measure, equal to 1/8 peck or 2 pints (1.101 liters).
  3. noun A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 1.201 U.S. liquid quarts or 1.032 U.S. dry quarts (1.136 liters). See Table at measurement.
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  • Very seldom would it be a 2-quart, a 4-quart or a peck.
  • Now a 4-quart, which is half a peck, is the No. 1 seller.
  • This aluminum set includes 1-quart, 1-1 / 2-quart, and 2-quart covered saucepans, a 5-quart covered dutch oven, and 7 "and 10" open French skillets. —  dealnews - Today's Edition
  • Small beets that run 40 to a quart are the most suitable size for first-class packs. —  Every Step in Canning
  • Just before noon and at noon the people come in thousands for the stew, which costs forty pfennigs (about 5 pence) a quart, and a quart is supposed to be enough for a meal and a half I have been in the great Schlachthof kitchen, where I have eaten the stew, and I have nothing but praise for the work being done. —  The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War
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  1. Middle English, from Old French quarte, from Latin quārta, feminine of quārtus, fourth; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English quarte, from Old French quarte, French quarte, feminine, from Latin quarta (sc. pars), a fourth part; cf. Old French quart, French quart, masculine, = Spanish cuarto = Portuguese quarto = Italian quarto, fourth, a fourth part, quarter; from Latin quartus, fourth (= English fourth), apparently for *quaturtus, with ordinal (superlative) formative -tus (English -th), from quattuor = English four: see four, and compare quadrate, quarter, etc.
  2. from French quarte, a sequence of four cards at piquet, also a position in fencing; particular uses of quarte, a fourth: see quart.
  3. Middle English quart, quarte, qwarte, quert, qwert, whert; origin obscure.
  4. Middle English quart, qwart, querte; from quart, a.
 

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