The name for several units of measurement, each of which is one fourth of some larger unit. In the Imperial system, a quarter is 2 stone, or one-quarter of a hundredweight.
A 1/4 part of many other things, including the year, the cycle of the moon, or a city.
Requesting clemencyspecifically not killing a defeated opponent.
A quarter is:
in heraldry, unless specified as a quarter sinister or sinister quarter, an ordinary occupying the dexter chief (viewer's upper left) quarter of the "field" of a shield
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