1 kvarði
a, m. [the Dan.-Swed. kaarde = a dirk is prob. the same word; Swed. quard = selvage]:—a yard-wand, Grág. i. 497, freq. in mod. usage: the phrase, setr nú at honum kvarða, Skíða R.; mæli-kvarði, a measure, proportion, of a map; cp. also á-kvarðá, to measure, fix, determine.