different between quarters vs chaldron

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw??t?z/, /?k??t?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??t?z/

Noun

quarters

1. plural of quarter.

Noun

quarters

1. (plural only, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
2. (by extension) The place where someone or something lives
   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[2]

     The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques—often malnourished and kept in tight quarters.

3. A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
4. Quarterfinals.

Verb

quarters

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quarter

Translations

Catalan

Noun

quarters

1. plural of quarter

French

Noun

quarters m

1. plural of quarter

English

Etymology

French chaudron. Doublet of cauldron.

Noun

chaldron (plural chaldrons)

1. (archaic) An old English dry measure, containing four quarters. At London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 208.

     The celdra or chaldron is employed in some places, especially at Finchale or Wearmouth. It appears to contain four quarters or thereabouts, and is perhaps the original measure of which the quarter is a fraction.

   • ????, De Colange.

     In the United States the chaldron is ordinarily 2,940 lbs, but at New York it is 2,500 lbs.

Anagrams

• chlordan, chondral