acre

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a linear measurement equal to twenty-two yards, now obsolete except in the Province of Quebec.

Quotations

1788

A request of the North West Company for a grant of land one acre in width from Lake Superior to Long Lake.

1830

Your Canoe ... was found about an acre below the Mill.

1887

The length of the dam would certainly be several acres.