conacre

/ kʌˈneːkər /

noun

1. farming land let for a season or for eleven months

Word History and Origins

Origin of conacre¹

C19: from corn ¹+ acre

Example Sentences

The neighboring gentry are bent, as conacre has ceased to pay, on supplanting the population by cattle.

From Project Gutenberg

Conacre, kon′ā-kėr, n. the custom of letting land in Ireland in small portions for a single crop, the rent paid in money or in labour—also Corn′acre.—v.t. to sublet in conacre.—n.

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She had heard or read of Conacre, but didn't suspect we were the Cregans of that place.

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It requires no prophet's eye to discern that the instant the tenant's son got married he would bring his wife home to his father's roof, and that if the energies of the united family did not suffice to cultivate the whole of the forty acres, part would be let at "conacre," that is, for the period of one harvest, to a man with or without a holding of his own.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sure I was sick, your honour, and the farrum was gettin' desthroyed;" or, "I was too poor to buy seed for the whole of it, and let some at conacre to Thady O'Flaherty, that's a good man, your honour, as any in Galway!" or "Wad ye have me tur-r-r-n my own childther out like geese on the mountain?" are a few of the replies which would, I am assured by a native, be made to any inquiry or reproof concerning the subletting of land or the accumulation of people.

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