| 单词 | erf-holder |
| 释义 | > as lemmaserf-holder In South Africa: ‘a garden plot, usually containing about half-an-acre’ (Webster). Also attributive, as erf-holder, erf-licence. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of pounds worthOE school land1466 shot1478 ground1548 officiary1594 canton1643 lotment1651 bovate1688 fraction1789 mahal1793 erf1812 fractional section1815 forty1845 tan1871 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. xxiii. 335 The proposal, that instead of extensive farms, it should be divided into small parcels of land, or erbes. 1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. xvi. 262 His industry put him in possession of this erf, a name given to a small lot of ground, not being a complete farm. 1851 J. J. Freeman Tour S. Afr. viii. 184 The party came to Buxton on Thursday morning, when burning commenced immediately, and no entreaties of erf-holders, tears of mothers and children, availed. 1887 in Barker's Trade & Finance 23 Mar. 3. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 10/1 The erven (acres) in question were granted to these Reservists by the Government. 1947 Cape Argus 11 Jan. 6/4 Erfs were allocated. 1948 Cape Times 26 Mar. 3/2 21 erfholders who dwell on the mainland but till their land on the island. 1959 Star (Johannesburg) 12 Jan. 20/3 We will sell by Public Auction the following:..Five Erven..Certain Erf No. 136 situate on Olive Avenue. < as lemmas |
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