| 单词 | acre's breadth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacre's breadth acre's breadth n. the breadth of an acre; 4 poles or 22 yards; cf. acre breadth n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > rod, pole, or perch > four poles or chain acre-bredec1330 furbrede1488 chain1661 acre's breadth1703 acre breadth1770 1703 tr. U. Chevreau Hist. World IV. viii. v. 454 Distant from the Walls about an Acre's breadth. 1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 27 What a feast..To see an acre's breadth of that wide cliff One roaring cataract. 1861 J. Mackenzie Our Country xxvii. 136 The arrow misses him a whole acre's breadth. 2009 A. Williams in N. Fryde & D. Reitz Walls, Ramparts, & Lines Demarcation 50 (note) Four poles made up an acre's breadth (22 modern yards) and ten acres made up a furlong (220 modern yards). < as lemmas |
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