quart /kwɔːt 
/ ▸ noun 1 a unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre: two quarts of milk.
▪ North American English a unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 litres.
2 Fencing /kɑːt / (also quarte or carte) the fourth of eight parrying positions. 3 (in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit. – PHRASES you can't get a quart into a pint pot British English proverb
you cannot achieve the impossible. – ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.
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