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a medieval guess at how much one ox could plow before lunch.
means A unit of land area equal to 43,560 square feet, traditionally the amount a yoke of oxen could plow in a day.
from From Old English æcer, meaning 'field' or 'tilled land,' tracing back to Proto-Germanic *akraz and ultimately the Proto-Indo-European root *agro- 'field,' a cousin of Latin ager and Greek agros (the same root hiding inside 'agriculture'). Originally it just meant open, cultivated ground; only later did it harden into a fixed measure, defined in medieval England as a strip one furlong long by one chain wide — the day's work of a man and his oxen.
- origin
- Defined by a day of oxen-powered plowing
- shape
- Was a long, skinny strip, not a square
- size
- Exactly 43,560 square feet, oddly precise now
- sport
- Roughly the size of a football field minus endzones
- survival
- Still legal in US and UK property deeds
acre state brazil — brazilian state in the amazon region, capital rio branco, ~1.6 million hectares
acre palestine — historic port city in northern israel/palestine, ancient phoenician settlement, currently in israel