Arpent

Word ARPENT
Character 6
Hyphenation ar pent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Arpent"

What do we mean by arpent?

Any of various French units of land measurement, especially one used in parts of Canada and the southern United States and equal to about 0.4 hectare (0.85 acre). noun

An old French measure for land. noun

Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English. noun

A unit of length, having various official measures noun

A unit of area, having various official measures noun

A former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre noun

A pre-metric French unit of length, having various official measures.

A pre-metric French unit of area, having various official measures.

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The word "arpent" in example sentences

The arpent is the old French measure that is approximately one acre in size. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The portage was said to be only fifty acres long (the arpent is the popular measure of distance here), but it passed over a ridge of newly burned land, and was so entangled with ruined woods and desolate of birds and flowers that it seemed to us at least five miles. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

The arpent was the standard unit of area in the Creole parishes of Louisiana, the acre in the parishes of Anglo-American settlement.] [Footnote 34: Calvin D. Wilson, "Black Masters," in the _North American ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

He could keep his fish, but had to fell and cut four arpents of trees an arpent is 0.85 percent of an acre over the next year and live on the place as well. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

They was sold for ten dollars an arpent back in the twenties. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

"Paysan sautant sur son petit arpent" (1947) takes its inspiration from the graffiti found on Parisian walls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This was the linear arpent, as distinct from the arpent superficiel, a measure of area, below. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

We found domain buildings and a yard surrounded by a hedge and within 3 barns, 1 arpent of vines, 1 garden with trees, 15 geese, 20 chickens. ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)

The habitant paid usually in _cens et rentes_ twenty sols (about twenty cents) for each arpent (192 feet) of frontage; instead of cash usually he might pay in kind -- a live capon or a small measure (demi-minot) of grain for each arpent. ❋ George M. Wrong (N/A)

An arpent is about one-seventh less than an acre; and a minot about one-eighth (some say one-twelfth) more than a bushel. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

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