| 单词 | irish acre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish acre Irish acre n. now chiefly historical (in Ireland) a measure of land.The size of area described varies but is typically held to be equivalent to approx. 1.62 English or statute acres (approx. 0.65 hectares). ΚΠ 1572 I. B. Let. Peopling & Inhabiting Ardes sig. D.iv An Irish Acre, which is two English Acres and a half quarter. 1647 H. Jones St. Patrick's Purgatory i. 3 It doth containe about halfe an Irish acre and eleven perches. 1764 London Mag. Feb. 64/1 Ireland..contains 10000000 of Irish acres (which may be near 17000000 English acres). 1873 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 9 412 The rent is 25s. an Irish acre, or 15s. 5d. an imperial acre. 1983 Washington Post 29 Dec. b9/2 She lives in Ireland on a small estate (one-third of an Irish acre, which is a bit larger than an American acre). 2001 L. A. Clarkson & E. M. Crawford Feast & Famine (2005) viii. 181 According to him [sc. 19th-cent. Times journalist Thomas Campbell Foster] a farmer could grow 5 tons of potatoes a year on a rood of land (a quarter of an acre). This is an extravagant estimate, even if Foster had Irish acres in mind. < as lemmas |
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