quayer

• quare, quaier, quayeer, quayere, quer, queyre
• cwaier, cweier, quaer (Early Middle English); cwaer (AB language)
• qwayr (East Anglia)

Borrowed from Old French quaier, quaer, from Latin quaternus. First attested in c. 1225, but in common usage only as of 1450.

• IPA^(key): /kwæi̯ˈeːr/, /ˈkwæi̯(ə)r/
• IPA^(key): /kweːr/ (from Old French quaer)

quayer (plural quayers)

1. A quire (set of pieces of paper, especially four folded sheets)
2. A booklet or pamphlet, especially if composed of a single quire.
3. A short treatise or poem.

• English: quire
• Middle Scots: quar, quair
  • Scots: quair

• “quaier, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “quire, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.