quarter section
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quarter section
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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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
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
In 1851 Anton Guion entered a quarter section of land on the west side.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
So before returning home I had bought a quarter section near Bloomington, and that next spring we moved unto a rented place adjoining it.
From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.
A beautiful quarter section of land joined the town on the east, and the man who had drawn it had already established his residence thereupon, so that he was known.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
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