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▪ I. ‖ morgen|ˈmɔːgən|
[Du. and G. morgen, believed to be the same word as morgen morn, with the sense ‘area of land that can be ploughed in one morning’.]
A measure of land in Holland and S. Africa (and hence in parts of the U.S.), equal to about two acres. Also, in † Prussia, Norway, and Denmark, a measure of land now equal to about two-thirds of an acre.
1674New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 151 Each is allowed a piece of land for a bouwerie, each piece 25 morgens. 1688Ann. of Albany (1850) II. 101 Two flatts or plains upon both sides of ye Maquase river..containing about eleven morgen. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXII. 483/1 (Netherlands) Of Superficial measures, the morgen, or Dutch acre, is equal to 2 acres and a perch English. 1849Johnston Exp. Agric. 104 The produce from a Prussian morgen (0.631 of an imp. acre) was [etc.]. 1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 151 Connected with this department of forestry are six thousand morgen of forest. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines v, This queer hill..covering at the base nearly a morgen (two acres) of ground. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt (1899) 42 With 10,000 morgen of land that he can call his own, he is indeed a happy man.
▪ II. morgen
obs. form of morn. |