See quartern on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1914, Frederic Harrison, Written for the Victoria League, The Meaning of the War; For Labour—Freedom—Country (Pamphlets on the European Crisis), London: Macmillan and Company and Richard Clay and Sons, Ltd., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:",
"text": "Let those who used to gibe at diplomacy and cry out against armaments consider how our manufacturing population is to be employed when half our exports are gone how our crowded cities are to be fed when ten millions of our workmen are out of work and the quartern loaf is at a shilling how are our industries to be started when the banks are bankrupt and the Exchequer has to find interest on a war indemnity of two thousand million sterling.",
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