vergéen.

/ˈvɛːʒeɪ/

Etymology: Anglo-Norman, < French terre vergée measured land.

In the Channel Islands, a superficial measure of land, varying between Jersey and Guernsey (see quot. 1971). In quot. 1915, in Flanders.

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1834 H. D. Inglis Channel Islands I. ix. 180 Rent in the neighbourhood of St. Helier is as high as from £3 to £4 per vergée... Two vergées and one quarter, make an English acre.

1858 F. F. Dally Channel Islands v. iv. 235 The Guernsey vergée is forty perches, and two vergées and a half are rather more than the English acre.

1915 Contemp. Rev. July 107 400 vergées (about one acre and a half), were kept under cultivation.

1971 National Geographic May 722/2 I do 50 vergées of potatoes a year... The vergée, an old Norman measure, is still the legal land unit of the Channel Islands. On Jersey, two-and-a-quarter vergées make one English acre, but Guernsey disagrees, and counts two-and-a-half to the acre.

1977 Jersey Evening Post 26 July 11/2 The IDC would like to transfer 1¾ vergées of land at the corner of Rouge Bouillon and Roussel Street.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	vergée
释义	vergéen. /ˈvɛːʒeɪ/ Etymology: Anglo-Norman, < French terre vergée measured land. In the Channel Islands, a superficial measure of land, varying between Jersey and Guernsey (see quot. 1971). In quot. 1915, in Flanders. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > Channel Islands unit vergée1834 1834 H. D. Inglis Channel Islands I. ix. 180 Rent in the neighbourhood of St. Helier is as high as from £3 to £4 per vergée... Two vergées and one quarter, make an English acre. 1858 F. F. Dally Channel Islands v. iv. 235 The Guernsey vergée is forty perches, and two vergées and a half are rather more than the English acre. 1915 Contemp. Rev. July 107 400 vergées (about one acre and a half), were kept under cultivation. 1971 National Geographic May 722/2 I do 50 vergées of potatoes a year... The vergée, an old Norman measure, is still the legal land unit of the Channel Islands. On Jersey, two-and-a-quarter vergées make one English acre, but Guernsey disagrees, and counts two-and-a-half to the acre. 1977 Jersey Evening Post 26 July 11/2 The IDC would like to transfer 1¾ vergées of land at the corner of Rouge Bouillon and Roussel Street. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1834
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