| 单词 | acre's length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacre's length acre's length n. the length of an acre; 40 poles, 220 yards, or a furlong; cf. acre length n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > furlong furlongc900 acrec1250 furlongc1330 acre lengthc1380 acre's lengthc1380 furlengtha1400 acre lenghc1440 oxgang1569 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 971 (MED) Þe frensche men þai made reculle wel an akers lengþe. 1609 P. Erondelle tr. M. Lescarbot Noua Francia xi. 68 Far off we saw other great fishes, which did shew, out of the water, aboue halfe an akers length of their backes. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat II. xi. 237 You will get such a name, if you have it not already, that not a man of them all will come within an acre's length of you. 1914 H. E. Seebohm in F. Seebohm Customary Acres Pref. p. vii For practice with the longbow, Henry VIII decreed that the shortest butts should be a furlong—eleven score—or exactly the acre's length. 2010 A. J. Lagana Me Island ii. xxxi. 453 About an acre's length off to the eastern side, was a modest one story building. < as lemmas |
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