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单词 town acre
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Definition of town acre in English:

town acre

noun
Australian, NZ historical
  • A unit of urban land given to a settler who bought a large area of uncleared rural land.

    these lands will be divided into 1100 sections, each section comprising one town acre, and 100 country acres
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One London purchaser was the printer and publisher Robert Thomas, who paid twelve shillings for one town acre.
    • He owned town acres 654 and 669 in Adelaide and later part of 914 as well.
    • In 1853 the Te Aro swamp burst the narrow bank that at that time divided it from the sea, and flooded the town acres on the waterfront.
    • The original price of a town acre or section was a pound.
    • In 1840, 1,100 town acre lots were pegged out.
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