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CONACRE (a corruption of corn-acre)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONACRE (a corruption of corn-acre)

CONACRE (a corruption of See also:
CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)
corn-See also:
ACRE
ACRE, or AQUIRY
acre) , in See also:

Ireland, a See also:

SYSTEM

system of letting See also:

LAND

land, mostly in small patches, and usually for the growth of potatoes as a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of return instead of See also:

WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages . It is now practically obsolete .

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