单词 | dessiatine |
释义 | dessiatinedesyatinn. A Russian superficial measure of 2400 square sazhens. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > Russian unit dessiatine1799 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1799 |
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