We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
quaier (c.1155)

The form quair is a cross reference to the following entry:

quaier (c.1155)

quaer,  quair,  quayer,  quayere;  queir,  quer;  quier  
  FEW:  quaterni 2/ii,1437b Gdf: GdfC:  cahier 8,407a TL: caier 2,10 DEAF: DMF:  cahier  TLF:  cahier  OED:  quire n.  MED:  quaier n.  DMLBS:  quaternus 2623a

s.

quire, set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded to form eight leaves
( MS: s.xii2 ) quaternio: cine, quaer  Aelfric Gloss 40.54
( MS: s.xiii )  quaternus: quair  TLL ii 116.167
( 1313-14 )  un coroner livera sus ces pleez en quayer et ne mye en roules  YBB Ed II v 24
unitvolumequire (as the standard commercial unit by which sheets of paper are sold)
( 1436 )  Item pur .v. queirs de paper que je despendu en l'ocupacion de l'ofice: .xx. d.  Port Bk foster 122
booklet, pamphlet
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  furount fichez sure le us del eglise [...] quatres quayers [...]. Le title de les deux greindres quayeres fuist [...]. Et le title des deux meindres quaiers fuist [...]  Anon Chr1 3.34, 37 and 39
( 1397 )  un petit quayer coverez de drap d'or d'un kalendre de les chapitres del bible versifiez  Gloucester Inventory 300
( 1419 )  divers livres e quayers de art et autre science, dont les noms ne sceient estre descerniez  Royal Witch 100

a.

quaier denier
curr.finan.quarter penny, farthing
( c.1155; MS: s.xii3/3 )  .xv. sol. de sol. engleis, que est apelé quaer denier  Leis Will ANTS 11.1

[gdw]

See also:

quart1  quarte1  quarter  quatre1 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
quair