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单词 acre-land
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acre-land
acre-land n. (a) ploughed or arable land; a piece of such land; spec. a holding or tenement, varying in extent from 8 to 20 acres according to locality; (now historical); (b) a piece of land consisting of one acre (obsolete. rare). [Attested earlier in place names, as Akerlande, West Riding, Yorkshire (a1193; now Lower Acreland), Akerlond (field name), Alvaston and Boulton, Derbyshire (1262), although the precise sense reflected by these examples is uncertain.]
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?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) l. 16 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 270 In al this londe, On aker-lond [a1400 BL Add. acre of londe] ther nes yfounde Ne toun ne houses never on..Ah al wes wode ant wildernesse.
a1400 in 6th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. I (1877) App. 233 in Parl. Papers (C. 1745) XLVII. 1 [All the customaries of the manor..of the tenure of] Worklond [and] Acrelond.
1479 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 53 Also an acre londe inclosed, late purchased of Water Dey.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvi/2 Euery akir lande conteyneth C.lx. perchies.
1792 Laws Jamaica II. xiii. 259 All such lots of the said acre-land as shall be so leased by the acre, shall be leased at such annual rents, and for such term and time, as the justices, vestrymen, and churchwardens..shall think fit and proper.
a1896 W. Morris Water of Wondrous Isles (1897) i. v. 17 The kine and the goats must she milk, and plough and sow and reap the acre-land according to the seasons, and lead the beasts to the woodland pastures when their own were flooded or burned.
1969 M. D. Lobel & A. Crossley Victoria Hist. County of Oxford IX. 25/2 It was difficult to get tenants for cotlands and acrelands as late as the 1360s.
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