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‖ dessiatine, desyatin|ˈdɛsjətiːn|
Also des(s)atine, desaetine, dessjaetine.
[ad. Russ. desyatīna lit. ‘tenth, tithe’.]
A Russian superficial measure of 2400 sq. sazhens.
1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 345 A desaetine and a half of land was bought, with the boors upon it. 1814W. Brown Hist. Propag. Chr. II. 542 A dessatine contains 117,600 English sq. feet. 1889tr. Tolstoi's Anna Karénina 166 Instead of sowing down twenty-four desyatins, they had only planted six. 1892Times 3 Mar. 3/3 Some 15,761 dessiatines of grain-growing land, or..over 40,000 acres. (A ‘dessiatine’ being about 23/4 acres.) 1901Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 5/1 The Tsar is said..to own in private property, mostly in the Baltic Provinces, a million desatines of land. |