Brewer's: Go of Gin

A quartern. In the Queen's Head, Covent Garden, spirits used to be served in quarterns, neat—water ad libitum. (Compare Stirrup Cup.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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