Yes, quarter is playable
...and is worth 17 points.
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"Quarter" Definition
noun
A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.
A place of residence, especially the buildings or barracks used to house military personnel or their dependents.
A proper or assigned station or place, as for officers and crew on a warship. Often used in the plural.
A region or an area of the earth thought of as falling into such a specific division of the compass.
A specific district or section, as of a city: the French Quarter.
verb-intransitive
To cover an area of ground by ranging over it from side to side.
To take up or be assigned lodgings.
verb
To strike on a ship's quarter .
To crisscross a district.
To change from one quarter to another .
To arrange or bear (as different coats of arms) on one escutcheon.
To add (a coat of arms) to others on one escutcheon.
adjective
Being one fourth of a standard or usual value.
Being one of four equal or equivalent parts.
Consisting of or equal to a quarter.
verb-transitive
Heraldry To divide (a shield) into four equal areas with vertical and horizontal lines.
To dismember (a human body) into four parts.
To divide into four equal or equivalent parts.
To divide or separate into a number of parts.
To furnish with housing: quartered the troops in an old factory building.
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