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单词 dessiatine
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dessiatinedesyatinn.

/ˈdɛsjətiːn/
Forms: Also des(s)atine, desaetine, dessjaetine.
Etymology: < Russian desjatina lit. ‘tenth, tithe’.
A Russian superficial measure of 2400 square sazhens.
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1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 345 A desaetine and a half of land was bought, with the boors upon it.
1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity II. 542 A dessatine contains 117,600 English sq. feet.
1886 N. H. Dole tr. L. Tolstoy Anna Karénina ii. xiii. 165 Instead of sowing down twenty-four desyatins, they had only planted six.
1892 Times 3 Mar. 3/3 Some 15,761 dessiatines of grain-growing land, or..over 40,000 acres. (A ‘dessiatine’ being about 2¾ acres.)
1901 Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 5/1 The Tsar is said..to own in private property, mostly in the Baltic Provinces, a million desatines of land.
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