acre : Idioms & Phrases

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acre inch

  • noun one twelfth of an acre-foot
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acre-foot

  • noun the volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters
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Broad acres

  • many acres, much landed estate. Rhetorical
Webster 1913

God's acre

  • noun the yard associated with a church
    churchyard.
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  • God's field; the churchyard.
Webster 1913

hell's half acre

  • noun a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice
    Hell's Kitchen.
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sedum acre

  • noun mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover
    wall pepper.
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