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Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a French linear measure equal to approximately 190 feet, used in areas of predominantly French-Canadian settlement.
This linear use seems to have been fairly common during the early nineteenth century.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1749
. . . the farm houses are never more than five arpents apart, and sometimes but three. . . .
1841
. . . he was discovered near a fence, frozen to death; his horse was found . . . about 30 arpents from him, well and eating hay. . . .
1936
The village was in the form of a square of forty arpents' side (about 1 1/2 miles).
2n.
a French land measure equal to about an acre.
Quotations
1703
An arpent is a spot of ground containing 100 perches square each of which is eighteen foot long.
1820
To Sell or Lease, and possession given in April next, of about one Hundred Arpents, well fenced, with all good new buildings thereon.
1936
This pitifully slow development is also reflected in the meagre amount of land which was cleared and cultivated, there being in 1628 not more, probably, than twenty-five arpents.