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单词 forty-acre
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forty-acre
forty-acre n. U.S. and New Zealand a section of land comprising forty acres (cf. B. 5).
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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.
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