conacre

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noun

An agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.

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Meanings

nounconacre (countable and uncountable, plural conacres)

plural conacres

  1. IrelandcountableuncountableAn agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.
  2. IrelandcountableuncountableA strip of land that is let under this system.
verbconacre (third-person singular simple present conacres, present participle conacring, simple past and past participle conacred)

present singular third person conacres · participle present conacring · participle past conacred · past conacred

  1. IrelandTo underlet a proportion of, for a single crop; said of a farm.

Origin

Corruption of corn-acre.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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