quarter section
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quarter section
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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Secretary Roper precipitately announced that PWA would allocate $1,500,000 to build a quarter section of one sea-drome behind the Delaware Breakwater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harnack's narrator is a middle-aged dirt farmer named August who left Iowa in his youth, then returned, half unwilling, to the quarter section staked out by his grandfather.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the end of the second course a plate, bearing a quarter section of sickly-looking apple-pie, was slid over to each.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
As to Hurley's quarter section, the winter being on them, it happened that there was no one who cared to purchase, and Joe had picked it up at a very modest figure.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
N. C. D. Taylor pre-empted the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 25, and the west half of the same quarter section; also lot 1, section 36, township 34, range 19.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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