Hist. rare. [ad. med.L. quarentēna (AF. quarenteyne): see QUARANTINE.] A lineal or square measure containing forty poles; a furlong or rood.
1809. Bawdwen, Domesday Bk., 14. Wood pasture four quarentens long and the same broad.
1869. Pearson, Hist. Maps Eng. (1870), 51. A wood ten leagues long by six and two quarentenes broad.
