| 单词 | quarter-stake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-stake quarter-stake n. †(a) a wooden stake used as a support for a tree (obsolete); (b) U.S. Surveying a stake marking the boundary of a quarter-section of land; (in quot. 1826) a stake marking a quarter of a mile on a road. ΚΠ 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) ii. 12 Empale them with three good quarter stakes of competent length set in triangle and made fast to one another by short pieces above and beneath. 1826 Road from Wheeling to Missouri (U.S. House Document 51) 27 The fourth quarter stake, or that at the termination of each mile, has a notch in each of its four edges. 1839 Acts of Legislature of State of Michigan 147 There shall be laid out and established a state road..running thence north northwesterly..to the quarter stake of sections twenty-one and twenty-two. 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 2 Section-corners and quarter-stakes, eighties, and forties, and fractions, are plain enough when one is habituated to them. 1993 Chicago Daily Herald 17 Mar. (Classified section) 7/1 Commencing at a point 7.15 chains north of the quarter stake in the south line of said Section and running thence south. < as lemmas |
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