Acre-breadth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Acre-breadth is a noun meaning Alternative form of acre's breadth.
Meaning
Alternative form of acre's breadth.
Example Sentences
The gād of modern Cambridgeshire has been a stick 9 feet long; but the surveyor put eight into the acre-breadth, reckoning two of these gāds to the customary pole of 18 feet.
In the huge Music Hall of the Scottish capital is seen an acre-breadth of the human face divine—the intelligent countenances of the middle and upper classes of a city noted for its cultivation of literature and science.
The cricketer who reads that the acre ' was fixed by the ordinance of Edward I. as a 'furlong in length and four poles in breadth' will notice that this acre-breadth exactly corresponds with the interval between the wickets of his favourite game.
Word Forms
- acre-breadths
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fingersbreadth, breast-girth, courbash, courbache, arpen, koorbash.
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