A Russian unit of dry measurement for grain and other commodities, equal to about one-quarter of a chetvirt (an older Russian measure).
From Russian 'chetvert' (quarter), the word literally means 'a quarter measure' and was a standard agricultural measurement in pre-Soviet Russia.
Russian peasants and merchants used the chetverik to trade grain for centuries, and the word itself became tied to land taxation—if you owned enough land to produce a certain number of chetveriks, that determined your taxes.
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