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quart

Best crossword clue

"Four-cup measure"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kwɔːt/Part of speech nounSorted aqrtuStarts with QEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon

Word origin

From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

Used in a sentence

  • A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
  • Carrados ought to have won the point and divided tricks, leaving his opponent a minor quart and a solitary trio—about 15 on the hand. By a careless discard he threw away both chances and the final score stood at 205-112.
  • Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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