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conacre

conacre noun: an agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.

Noun

conacre (countable and uncountable, plural conacres)

  1. (Ireland) An agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.
  2. (Ireland) A strip of land that is let under this system.

Verb

conacre (third-person singular simple present conacres, present participle conacring, simple past and past participle conacred)

  1. (Ireland) To underlet a proportion of, for a single crop; said of a farm.

Forms of conacre

Noun
pluralconacres
Verb
third-person singular presentconacres
present participleconacring
past participleconacred
pastconacred

Origin of conacre

Corruption of corn-acre.

Words formed from conacre

Questions about conacre

What does conacre mean?
Conacre means an agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.
What part of speech is conacre?
Conacre can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of conacre?
The plural of conacre is conacres.

Words near conacre in the dictionary

  1. Cona
  2. conacaste
  3. conacastes
  4. Conacher
  5. Conachers
  6. conacre
  7. conacred
  8. conacreism
  9. conacres
  10. conacring
  11. Conahan

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