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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Acre‵ Brazil, Israel 1. Brazil: a state named after the River Acre, formerly the Aquiri. Disputed territory, it became part of Bolivia in 1866 before being transferred to Brazil in 1903 under the terms of the Treaty of Petrópolis.2. Israel: the city has had several names including Accho, Ptolemais, and St Jean d'Acre. The name may be derived from a Hebrew word for ‘enclosed’, given its position at the northern end of the Bay of Haifa. The Old Testament name was Accho. The city was conquered in 336 bc by Alexander III the Great† and by Ptolemy II Philadelphus† who renamed it Ptolemais. Later it came under Roman, Persian, and Arab rule before falling to the Crusaders during the First Crusade in 1104. They held it until Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Palestine, recaptured it in 1187. The Third Crusade, led by Guy of Lusignan, Richard I of England, and Philip II of France, won it back in 1191 and they gave it to the Knights of St Jean, who located their headquarters here. It was renamed St Jean d'Acre, Acre being the French version of Akko. It was captured in 1291 by the Mamlūks. From 1516 to 1917 the city was mainly under Ottoman Turkish control, before being taken over by the British, becoming part of the British mandate in 1922. Acre was captured by Israeli troops in 1948. Locally it is known as Akko.
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acre

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | Copyright

acre, a unit of territorial measurement that, in Ireland as elsewhere, could have varying meanings. In different contexts an ‘acre’ could refer to a parcel of land physically marked out on the landscape, a notional subdivision of a larger unit such as a ploughland or ballyboe, or a measured area of standard size. Of the several different measured acres in use, that based on a perch of 21 feet (1 acre=160 square perches) was used in the plantation of Ulster, and became established as the ‘Irish’ or ‘plantation’ acre, equal to 1.62 statute acres. The Cunningham acre, was equal to 1.29 statute acres.
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acre

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

acre A unit of area, the British statute acre being equal to 0.4047 ha (4840 square yards or 10 square chains). Originally, unenclosed land and later enclosed, cultivated land; as a measure, probably the area that could be ploughed in a day by a yoke of oxen (and therefore varying according to the type of soil). In Britain, historically a woodland acre varied from forest to forest, but was always larger than the statute measure. Assarts were surveyed at the statute measure.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

acre measure of land area used in the English units of measurement . The acre was originally the area a yoke of oxen could plow in a day and therefore differed in size from one locality to another. It is now fixed as 10 square chains or 160 square rods, i.e., 4,840 sq yd, 43,560 sq ft, or 1/640 sq mi. It is equal to about .4047 of a hectare or 4,046.9 sq m.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

acre a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare). In Old English, æcer denoted the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; it is a word of Germanic origin, ultimately from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra, Latin ager, and Greek agros, ‘field’.
See also land of the broad acres, three acres and a cow.
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

acre A unit of area, the British statute acre being equal to 0.4047 hectare (4840 square yards or 10 square chains). In Britain, historically a woodland acre varied from forest to forest, but was always larger than the statute measure. Assarts were surveyed at the statute measure.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

acre †field; unit of square measure of land. OE. æcer = OS. akkar (Du. akker), OHG. ackar (G. acker), ON. akr, Goth. akrs :- Gmc. *akraz :- IE. *agros, repr. by L. ager, Gr. agrós, Skr. ájra- field.
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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

a·cre / ˈākər/ • n. a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare). ∎  (acres of) inf. a large extent or amount of something.

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Acre

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Acre , state (1990 est. pop. 1,125,100), 58,915 sq mi (152,590 sq km), W Brazil, on the borders of Peru and Bolivia. Rio Branco is the capital.

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acre

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

acre Unit of area measurement in English-speaking countries, equal to 0.405ha (4840sq yd).
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Acre Israel: see Akko .

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ACRE

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations | 1998 | | Copyright

ACRE (ˈeɪkə) Action with Rural Communities in England
• automatic climatological recording equipment
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

acre •acre, baker, breaker, Chandrasekhar, faker, forsaker, Jamaica, Laker, maker, nacre, partaker, Quaker, raker, saker, shaker, staker, taker, undertaker, waker •bellyacher • matchmaker • bedmaker •dressmaker •haymaker, playmaker •sailmaker • rainmaker •lacemaker, pacemaker •peacemaker • filmmaker • kingmaker •printmaker • holidaymaker •cabinetmaker • moneymaker •merrymaker • watchmaker •clockmaker • lawmaker • homemaker •bookmaker • troublemaker •boilermaker • heartbreaker •safebreaker • Windbreaker •tie-breaker • strikebreaker •icebreaker • jawbreaker •housebreaker • muckraker •boneshaker • caretaker • piss-taker •stavesacre • wiseacre •beaker, Costa Rica, Dominica, eureka, Frederica, Griqua, leaker, loudspeaker, seeker, shrieker, sika, sneaker, speaker, squeaker, streaker, Tanganyika, theca, tikka, Topeka, wreaker

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