acre right

noun

, U.S. History.

1. the right of a settler to purchase land that the settler has occupied or improved.

Example Sentences

“I mean, can we even get a half an acre right?”

From Seattle Times

It was reported at the time that the price he had paid the Government was ten shillings per acre, right out.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, friends, a dozen years from the time we started on that farm, under these circumstances, we were getting from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty bushels of merchantable potatoes per acre right along—not a single year, but on the average—varying, of course, somewhat with the season.

From Project Gutenberg

If he don't say "go slow" when you comes a-yellin' up, your remains would a-been coverin' half an acre right now.

From Project Gutenberg