quartare

1 quartare [ML =to divide into four parts] , (of number) to move to a fourth column. si autem divisor fuerit decenus secundat a se, si centenus terciat, si millenus ~at, si decenus millenus quintat Thurkill Abac. f. 58.

2 quartare [CL quartus+-aris] , quire, gathering. 1475 in j ~i paupiri et in j standisshe viij d. Ac. Churchw. Sal. 17.