Usually means: Twenty-four or twenty-five sheets.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word quire:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. quire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quire, quire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quire, quire: Wordnik
  7. quire: Wiktionary
  8. quire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. quire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. quire: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Quire, quire: Dictionary.com
  12. quire (1), quire (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Quire (architecture), Quire (paper quantity), Quire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Quire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. quire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. quire: Rhymezone
  17. Quire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. quire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. quire: Free Dictionary
  20. quire: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. quire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. quire: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Quire: The Word Detective
  24. quire: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUIRE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quire: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quire: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quire: The Folk File
  3. Quire: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See quires as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quire)

noun:  One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
noun:  (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
noun:  A book, poem, or pamphlet.
verb:  (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
noun:  (archaic) A choir.
noun:  One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
verb:  (intransitive, poetic) To sing in concert.

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