Acre

Acre
(area)
A port city on the Bay of Haifa in the eastern Mediterranean, a critical city in the Holy Lands, seized by Christian armies in 1104, but retaken by Saladin in 1187, recaptured by Richard I in 1191, finally falling to the Saracens for the last time in 1291.
(Anglo-Saxon field.) The land area that can be ploughed by one ox team in a day — actually in a morning because the Oxen would need resting in the afternoon: They would trudge 11 miles while ploughing an acre. Traditionally in the strip field farming system, an area 40 rods long by 4 rods wide (ie. 220 yards by 22 yards). Sometimes used as a measure of width: One acre = 4 Rods wide. One tenth of a square furlong. Similar to the French Journal, and German Morgan or Tagwerk. The modern acre is 4840 square yards.
♦ A day's ploughing for one plough team. Now 200 X 22 yards. 120 were reckoned to be the average which would support one family, but the acre varied in real size according to local conditions and soil.
(Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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