quarterer
English
noun
Definitions
- (historical) One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.
Etymology
Suffix from English quarter.
Origin
English
quarter
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forequarter English
- hindquarter English
- midquarter English
- multiquarter English
- quarter English
- quarter-hour English
- quarterage English
- quarterback English
- quarterboy English
- quarterdeck English
- quartereth English
- quarterfinal English
- quarterite English
- quarterization English
- quarterland English
- quarterless English
- quarterlifer English
- quarterlight English
- quarterly English
- quartermistress English
- quarterpace English
- quartersaw English
- quarterstaff English
- tri-quarter English
- quartier French
- cuara Spanish, Castilian
- クォーター Japanese
- chwarter Welsh
- *s/m/g-rus Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- quattie Jamaican Creole