noun

• A fourth part of something.
  "I ate a quarter of the pizza."
• A fourth part of something.
  "One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more."
• A fourth part of something.
• A fourth part of something.
  "And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...]."

adj

• (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).
  "a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound"
• (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
  "A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year."

verb

• (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
• (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
  "Quarter the horses in the third stable."
• (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
• (transitive) To quartersaw.
  "But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber."

verb

• (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
  "Every creature that met us would rely upon us for quartering"