An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
A wide expanse.
A large quantity.
A field.
The length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
A wide expanse.
A large quantity.
A field.
The length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.