Obs. rare. In 5 quaterime, -(e)ryme, katereme. [a. OF. quatrieme, -esme (14th c. in Godef.), subst. use of quatrième fourth.] A duty or tax of a fourth part levied on certain commodities.
c. 1460. Fortescue, Abs. & Lim. Mon., x. (1885), 131. The gabell off the salt, and the quaterimes of the wynes, were graunted to the kynge by the iij estates of France.
c. 1465. Eng. Chron. (Camden, 1856), 48. Alle maner custumez, fe fermez, and quatrymez.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., VII. (1520), 149/2. All maner customes and fee fermes and kateremes.
