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quarterage|ˈkwɔːtərɪdʒ|
Also 4 qwarter-, 5 quater-, 6 quartrage, -errage, querterage, 6–8 quartridge, (6 -redge), 7–8 -eridge, (7 -eridg, 8 -erridge).
[f. quarter n. + -age; perh. a. OF. quarterage (Godef.).]
1. A contribution, subscription, tax, or other charge paid by a person every quarter; a quarterly payment made by one.
1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 3 Which wardeins schul gadere þe qwarterage of bretheren & sustren. 1452in Gross Gild Merch. II. 69 All maner fynnys, amercyments & quarteragys. 1529in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xiv. 251 So Alweys that the sayde quarterage be lawfullye demaunded. 1602Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 262 You shall not brag that your Vizeroyes or Tributorie kings have done homage to you, or paide quarterage. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 42. 1 Most of our subscribers having paid their Quarterridges [etc.]. 1795Burke Tracts Popery Laws Wks. 1842 II. 434 They trade and work in their own native towns as aliens, paying, as such, quarterage, and other charges and impositions. 1887Times 20 Jan. 4/3 The plaintiff had not paid his quarterages.
2. A sum paid to, or received by, a person every quarter; a quarter's wages, allowance, pension, etc.
1423Leet Bk. in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 207 Thei shall have ij men of every ward, every quarter, to help them to gather þer Quarterage. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 4 Than came a pardoner with his boke, His quarterage of euery man he toke. 1590Tarlton News Purgat. (1844) 82 He, being then bare of pence, because his quarterage was not come in. 1666Pepys Diary 8 Jan., My uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage. 1727Swift Richmond Lodge & Marble Hill, An idle Rogue, who spends his Quartridge In tippling at the Dog and Partridge. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. xvii. 370 A half-starved Clerk, eked out his lean quarterage, by these merry perquisites. 1892Cornh. Mag. July 27 He must wait till his new quarterage came before he could pay.
3. Quarters, place of abode; quartering of troops, or the expense of this. rare.
1577Holinshed Chron., Scot. I. 485 The Scots that lay in Kelso, and other places keeping their quarterrage on the bordures. 1647in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 143 Agreed that a Ley..be imposed upon the Towne for payeing of the Quarterage of the horse. Ibid., These burdens of quarterage. 1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 562 Common sense is driven out of her native quarterage in the brain. 1873E. O'Curry Lect. Ancient Irish I. xvi. 336 Any noble residence at which they [great stewards] intended to claim the free quarterage due to their official dignity.
4. attrib., as quarterage-bill, quarterage-book, quarterage-day, quarterage-fee.
1533in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 214 Paid to the mynstrell at quarterage day..viijd. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2799/4 A large Folio Book..called the Carmens Quarteridg-Book. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) II. 192 The Quarterage-bill, like all others, must pass through both houses of parliament. 1894Times 19 Oct. 6/2 The ‘quarterage’ fees of 4s. per annum per member. |