| 单词 | geld-acre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeld-acre geld-acre n. [after post-classical Latin acra ad geldum (1086 in Domesday Book)] the quantity of land which was reckoned as an acre for the purposes of geld. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific stang1326 acre by lug1602 lug-acre1635 Welsh acre1675 plantation acre1705 Cheshire acre1808 geld-acre1880 1880 R. W. Eyton Domesday Stud.: Somerset I. Pref. 6 For so great a number of Gheld-acres would be expressed in other terms. 1906 Eng. Hist. Rev. 21 356 He [sc. the author] mistakes geld acres for real acres. 2000 K. Jankulak Medieval Cult St Petroc iv. 116 The Cornish geld-acre (the acre being a measure of land within Domesday as probably a unit of taxation) does not correspond in size to the English geld-acre. < as lemmas |
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