| 单词 | in acre-dale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also by) acre-dale A method of letting land in small portions of about one acre each; land apportioned in this way. Also in † in (also by) acre-dale and attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > other types of land almslandOE frank-chase1587 acre-dale1592 free-bound1639 freeboard1640 home territory1703 1592–3 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1882) 1st Ser. V. 56 The boundis..sould be sett out in aiker daill. 1679 J. Somerville Memorie Somervilles (1815) I. 168 Being all of it in Acker-dale land. 1709 in Fountainhall's Decisions (1759) II. 519 He did it to get a cheaper bargain to the tenant, who was to take it by aiker-dale, and only to pay according to the number of the acres. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. III. 112 The rest are possessed by the inhabitants of Eyemouth, in small parks and acre-dale. 1794 J. P. Wood Parish Cramond 99 Eleazar Borthwick..having an intention to dispose of that property, set the lands out in aikerdaill at a high racked rent, and built a number of onsetts on the same. 1831 Courier 22 Oct. 1/2 Part of it is occupied as acredale land, in the immediate vicinity of the thriving village of Ferry-port-on-Craig. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Acre-dale lands, land apportioned in acre strips. 1902 Trans. Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian 2 336 Plasketlands still cultivate their ‘acre-dale’ as in the days of Good Queen Bess. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. ii. 172 There were also other lands called ‘acre-dales’ or ‘rivings’, comprising some 344 acres. < as lemmas |
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