 | Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti - 1794 - 686 pages
...the fame »sjogar. YUCCA, ff a root in America, of which the natives make a kind of bread. YUGADA, tf an acre of ground, or as much as a yoke of oxen can plough in a day. YUGE fm ohf. a judge. YUGO, {. m. a yoke. ' Yugo, m 'iriinuny. Yuge, law, fnperior... | |
 | Samuel Pike - 1811 - 212 pages
...15. TDV, TOV a bracelet fastened to the arm. 1OV, a pair, a couple, a yoke of oxen. An acre of land, or as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in ' a day, Isai. v, 1 o. OHOV riding in pairs, two and two a-breast, 2 Kings ix. 25. to spring up, bud, or grow... | |
 | James Davies (of Southport.) - 1871 - 116 pages
...bear two constructions. It may mean 1. That the space within which the twenty men were slain was half as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day. 2. That the space within which they fell was equivalent to a circle having for its circumference half... | |
 | Sidney John Hervon Herrtage - 1879 - 520 pages
...Perhaps this is merely an asseveration. 1. 971. An acre was a definite quantity of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, afterwards limited by statutes passed in the 31st years of Edw. III., 5th of Edw. I. and 24th of Henry... | |
 | Titus Livius - 1879 - 348 pages
...Ejiod. ii. 14. Fmgiferum : p. 40, n. 6. 2 Terna iiu/era et septunces : ' iugerum ' (from iugum, being as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day) was really only fiveeighths of an acre : it was a piece of ground 240 ft. by 120 ft. An uncia was originally... | |
 | Sidney John Hervon Herrtage - 1880 - 240 pages
...Perhaps this is merely an asseveration. iiy, 1. 971. An acre was a definite quantity of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, afterwards limited by statutes passed in the 31st lace years of Kdw. III., 5th of Edw. I. and 24th... | |
 | Daniel Silvan Evans - 1893 - 680 pages
...Cymrñg, ii. &41. Cyfair, ) eiriau, em. [cyf- + âr, aru : Br. quener] Cyfar, } an acre ; originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day. ' A measure of land consisting of 3240 yards in Carnarvonshire and Anglesey, and of 2430 in Merioneth.'... | |
 | Einar Laurentius Ekblom - 1917 - 220 pages
...'Bean-field'. OE cecer meant I) 'a piece of tilled land, a field'; 2) 'a definite measure of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day' (NED). The OE compound *beanland (beanlandes) occurs in CD no. 724. Beckhampton ( — - — — ) near... | |
 | Colin Spencer - 2003 - 428 pages
...broad (4,840 square yards). The size used to vary. Before the time of Edward I, it was reckoned to be as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day. amber: dry measure equalling 4 bushels. bushel: measure equalling 4 pecks or 8 gallons (36.4 litres).... | |
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thys endys my^tti," read "thys endys ny^th." 1. 521. " by bis lijte." Perhaps this is merely an asseveration. iiy, 1. 971. An acre was a definite quantity of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, afterwards limited by statutes... 