hidelandn.
/ˈhʌɪdland/ Historical.
= hide n.2 1.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > hide
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1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xvii. i. 293 Etheldred made a law that everie man holding 310 hidelands, should find a ship.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 35 The proportion of an Hide-Land, otherwise called Caruca, or a Plough-land, is difficult to be understood, because it was not certain.
1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 61 A ‘hyde land’ or its synonyms being applied to sixty, eighty, an hundred, an hundred and twelve, or an hundred and fifty acres.
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