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white acre
Also whit(t)aker, witacre.
†1. Law. An arbitrary name for a particular parcel of ground, distinguished from another called black acre, q.v. Obs.
1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. viii. §561 If a man seised in fee of white acre and black acre devisable, and deviseth white acre unto I.S. [etc.]. 1698[see black acre].
2. A local name for white quartz.
1796Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 16 A species of crystal, or quartz—provincially ‘whittaker’; which, in colour, is mostly white, sometimes tinged with red. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornw., etc. xv. 473 note, Quartz is commonly known..as whiteacre in eastern Cornwall and part of Devon. |