Definitions for quire

quire quire

Spelling: [kwahyuh r]
IPA: /kwaɪər/

Quire is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in quire (eiqru).

Definitions for quire

noun

  1. a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
  2. Bookbinding. a section of printed leaves in proper sequence after folding; gathering.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

  1. Archaic. choir.

Origin of quire

1175-1225; Middle English quayer Middle French quaier Vulgar Latin *quaternum set of four sheets, derivative of Latin quarternī four each

Examples for quire

In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife.

The quire that I sent is now in the hands of Johnson's friend.

In the quire of the church of Eland, in a window, are painted the arms of Eland, viz.

I have suggested that it may have been used as a night quire.

She went and fetched a quire of paper, and borrowed his pencil and wrote them down.

If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire.

I suppose he was so poor he couldn't afford to buy a quire of paper.

There is one tomb on the south side the quire, but without inscription.

By the way, Fancy, do you know why our quire is to be dismissed?

Books may be quired in printing, that is, several sheets may be put together, like the sheets in a quire of paper.

Word Value for quire
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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