quarter-section
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kwôr′tər sĕk′shən[1][2]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/
Noun
quarter-section (plural quarter-sections)
- (US) A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “quarter”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “section”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “quarter-section”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “quarter-section, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page n.
- “quarter-section, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.