[QUARTER sb. 8 a.] One belonging to the lower class of Gentlemen-Ushers, who remained in waiting for a quarter of a year.
a. 1522. in Rutland Papers (Camd.), 102. Gentilmen ushers quarter wayters.
c. 1600. Sir J. Davies, Dialogue (Tanner MS. 79 lf. 15). Gentleman Usher. I should know something that have beene a quarter-wayter these 15 yeares.
1610. Househ. Ord. (1790), 338. The gentlemen ushers, daily waiters, and quarter waiters.
1656. Finett, For. Ambass., 225. They gave to the hand of a Gentleman Usher Quarter-waiter 10 Peeces.
1731. Gentl. Mag., I. 124. One of the … Quarter Waiters in ordinary to his Majesty.
