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quarter

• 1a n. Hist. a quarter of a Spanish dollar.

  See also: dollar   quarter-dollar (def. 1)  

• 1b n. a quarter of a Canadian dollar; a twenty-five-cent piece.

  See also: dollar  (def. 2)  quarter-dollar (def. 2)  

• 2 † n. Esp. West one quarter of a surveyed section of land, that is, 160 acres, the area of the usual homestead grant in the West.

  See also: quarter-section  

• 3 n. Cdn Football one of the four periods into which a regulation game is divided.