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ǁ Quatre. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. ǁ Quatre Also 6 quatter, 6, 8 quater. [F. quatre four.] The number four; the four in dice. CATER sb.2

1 a. 1500.  Image Hypocr., iv. in Skelton’s Wks., II. 442/1. Swordemen and knightes, That for the faith fightes With sise, sinke, and quatter.

2 c. 1570.  Pride & Lowl. (1841), 75. All for a matter deer of quater ase.

3 1611.  Florio, Quaderni, two quaters or foures at dice.

4 1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, V. x. (1737), 37. Cinques, Quaters, Treys.

5 1772.  Foote, Nabob, II. Wks. 1799, II. 301. Cinque and quater: you’re out.

6 1814.  Cary, Dante, Paradise, V. 59. Included, as the quatre in the sise.

7 1850.  Bohn’s Hand-bk. Games, 383. Should two quatres be thrown, any of the following moves may be played.

8   Hence Quatre-crested a., having four crests.

9 1792.  Cowper, Iliad, II. 48. His helmet quatre-crested. [Note. Quatre-crested. So I have rendered τετραφαληρον.]

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