Now rare. Also 5 katereyn, 6 -in, -yn, 6–7 quatrine. [a. OF. quatrin, quadrin (Godef.), or It. quattrino, f. quattro four.] A small piece of money; a farthing. Cf. QUADRINE1.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 12. Þou schalt ȝeue me foure floreynis…. And he ansuerid, Soþli, I haue but foure katereynis.
1547. Boorde, Introd. Knowl., xxiii. (1870), 179. (Italy) In bras they haue kateryns, and byokes, and denares.
1582. Munday, Eng. Rom. Life, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 202. Supping so well as I coulde, with two quatrines woorth of leekes.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 92. From hence [Bologna] we hired a boat for foure bolinei and foure quatrines.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Nov., 2/2. Does it refer to the Pope who had not a quatrin, or to St. Martin?
