| 单词 | forty-acre | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasforty-acre   forty-acre  n. U.S. and New Zealand a section of land comprising forty acres (cf.  B. 5). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > 			[adjective]		 > of specific number of acres forty-acre1742 thousand-acre1895 1742    in  H. H. Metcalf  & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. 		(1915)	 III. 94  				I give to my Grand Son..one Forty Acre Lot. 1860    in  A. F. Ridgway Voices from Auckland 48  				The Forty-acre men will ruin the country. 1869    J. May Guide to Farming in N.Z. 42  				We were lately on the sections of two ‘forty-acre men’. 1887    C. B. George 40 Years on Rail xi. 227  				‘I live just over there’, pointing to his house across a forty-acre lot. 1943    C. Crow Great Amer. Customer 		(ed. 3)	 185  				There was no reason why a farmer could not plant a whole forty-acre field in wheat. < as lemmas  | 
	
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