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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

cuartillo
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In Colombia it was the name of a coin that circulated in the nineteenth century. It equals a quarter of a weight or 2 reais (a weight was 8 reais). In Spain it was a measure of volume that was about half a liter, as it was a quarter of a blue (which amounted to just over 2 liters).

  




Anónimo

Quad: Vellón coin tied with silver, which sent till the King Enrique IV of Castile, and was worth one quarter of a real.

  


Anónimo

QUAD: in Honduras, donut of curdled with a tablet of conserves of milk.

  


Anónimo

QUAD: Small window.

  


Anónimo

QUAD: Former Colombian currency.

  


Gaudencio Busto García

The Quad ( measure for fluids ) is the fourth part of the azumbre. We can deduce that if the azumbre equals 2 '' 016 litres, the Quad - approximation to the metric system - is equivalent to 504 milliliters. The Quad of bushel - measure for aggregates - is indeed the fourth part of a bushel.

  


Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Measure of capacity for liquids and solids in area perfectly, equivalent to more than one liter, one quarter of a bushel, measures already in use. My grandfather had it in a brass container for selling the wine in skins of 3 or 4 pounds. In ready it was used and is still used as quad to catch beans, chickpeas, locust beans and cereals of the finding a medium-sized Tin of sardines in oil very consumed long ago in the region.

  



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