conacre

British

/ kʌˈneːkər /

noun

farming land let for a season or for eleven months

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Etymology

Origin of conacre

C19: from _corn ¹ + _acre

Example Sentences

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The neighboring gentry are bent, as conacre has ceased to pay, on supplanting the population by cattle.

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Conacre, kon′ā-kėr, n. the custom of letting land in Ireland in small portions for a single crop, the rent paid in money or in labour—also Corn′acre.—v.t. to sublet in conacre.—n.

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She had heard or read of Conacre, but didn't suspect we were the Cregans of that place.

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I have seen men and women actually fencing with questions put to them by the excellent priest who dwells at Letterfrack, Father McAndrew, who was obliged to exercise all his authority to obtain a straight answer concerning the potato crop grown on a patch of conacre land.

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The rest of their living was made either out of a conacre potato patch, for which they were charged a tremendous rent, or eked out by the excursion of one member of the family to England for the reaping season.

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