Слово "acre". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

a half acre of open space encircled by commercial buildings

Matthew Maule, on the other hand, though an obscure man, was stubborn in the defence of what he considered his right, and, for several years, he succeeded in protecting the acre or two of earth which, with his own toil, he had hewn out of the primaeval forest, to be his garden-ground and homestead.

Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motorboat that bumped the tide offshore.

"Acres and acres," he said.