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| | quarter |
 | | – 1985, a unit of capacity = 8 bushels, probably originally one fourth of a wey, which was about the capacity of a medieval wagon. |
 | | In the United States, a school term approximately 12 weeks long, one fourth of an academic year. |
 | | In the United States, this unit survives mainly in the language of quilters, especially in the term “fat quarter,” a piece of fabric the width it was woven and somewhat more than a fourth of a yard long, i.e., cut generously. |
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