Quartern-Loaf : A traditional English unit of weight for bread. A quartern-loaf is made from a quartern [2] of flour. The finished loaf usually weighs somewhere between 4 and 5 pounds (very roughly 2 kilograms)
Russ Rowlett (Director), How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement, Center for Mathematics and Science Education University of North Carolina, USA 2005. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictA.html, (Unit of Meas and Covr Factors - Amer) {608}