Term for a measure of area; see under acre.
Old, rural field measure (also yoke, juchart or Tagewerk) corresponding to the size of an area of arable land that could be ploughed in one morning (morning) with a single-furrow horse or ox team or that could be mown by a single man with a scythe. But it was also used to designate the area that a man could work with a team from morning until evening. The size of an acre, which...
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