DCHP-3

back forty

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the back forty acres, that part of a farm most remote from the house and barn.

Quotations

1961
"He was settin' in this here Dooley's back 40 one day an' he looked up and seen one a them there four-engine bombers they're flyin' tuh Roosia. . . ."
1961
There was a little piece saying that Jake Trumper was going to [make] rain on Tuesday next at Tincher's back forty. . . .
1964
Remember when we used to cut our own Christmas tree in the back forty.