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• BREAD — (Heb. לֶחֶם, leḥem), a baked commodity from a cereal flour. The primary sense of leḥem is food in general (Gen. 37:25; Num. 28:2; I Kings 5:2; etc.). The Ugaritic lḥm has the same general sense and the same particular sense, while the Arabic… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• quartern loaf — Quartern Quar tern, n. [OE. quarteroun, quartron, F. quarteron, the fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See {Quarter}, and cf. {Quarteron}, {Quadroon}.] 1. A quarter.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• quartern loaf — noun A four pound loaf, made from a quarter of a stone of flour • • • Main Entry: ↑quartern * * * quartern loaf, a large, round loaf of bread weighing about four pounds …   Useful english dictionary

• size of bread, and cue of bread —  Cambridge. The one signifying half, the other one fourth part of a halfpenny loaf, cue being Q. the abbreviation of a quarter, and size comes from …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

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