| 单词 |
arpent |
| 释义 |
‖ arpent
(see below)
Also 7 arpen, -ine (erron. arpentier).
[a. F. arpent (= Pr. arpen, aripin):—L. arepennis (Columella), arapennis (Isidore) = semijugerum ‘half an acre,’ according to Columella a Gallic word. See Littré. Formerly quite naturalized as (ˈɑːpən(t, ˈɑːpɪn); now again treated as French: |arpɑ̃|.]
An obsolete French measure of land, containing a hundred square perches, and varying with the different values of the perch from about an acre and a quarter to about five-sixths of an acre.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Demi arpent, halfe an arpent, that is, nine hundreth foote of grounde. 1601Holland Pliny I. 550 An Acre or Arpen of ground, called in Latine Iugerum. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 51 The partition of Lands by Measures, Acres, Arpentiers, Bunderen. 1623J. Webster Devil's Law-Case iii. iii. in Hazl. Dodsl. III. 74 If he be master Of poor ten arpines of land. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Corn, As many Pounds of Salt-petre..as you have Arpents of Land to sow. 1869Parkman Discov. Gt. West i. (1875) 7 La Salle had..assigned to each settler half an arpent, or about a third of an acre. |
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