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
So I took up this here quarter section and started in.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
Have you ever turned the first sod on a quarter section with a spade, and then stopped and looked over the vast expanse before you?
From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.
In 1855 Carma P. Garlick surveyed a quarter section here and laid it off into town lots, and had lithograph maps published, calling the prospective village Sebatanna, an Indian town signifying "Water Village."
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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