Also 6 quatter, 6, 8 quater. [F. quatre four.] The number four; the four in dice. CATER sb.2
a. 1500. Image Hypocr., iv. in Skelton’s Wks., II. 442/1. Swordemen and knightes, That for the faith fightes With sise, sinke, and quatter.
c. 1570. Pride & Lowl. (1841), 75. All for a matter deer of quater ase.
1611. Florio, Quaderni, two quaters or foures at dice.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. x. (1737), 37. Cinques, Quaters, Treys.
1772. Foote, Nabob, II. Wks. 1799, II. 301. Cinque and quater: you’re out.
1814. Cary, Dante, Paradise, V. 59. Included, as the quatre in the sise.
1850. Bohn’s Hand-bk. Games, 383. Should two quatres be thrown, any of the following moves may be played.
Hence Quatre-crested a., having four crests.
1792. Cowper, Iliad, II. 48. His helmet quatre-crested. [Note. Quatre-crested. So I have rendered τετραφαληρον.]
