Слово "acre". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The value of the back lands which some of the provinces are clandestinely deprived of, by the unjust extention of the limits of Canada, valued only at five pounds sterling per hundred acres, amount to upwards of twenty-five millions, Pennsylvania currency; and the quit-rents at one penny sterling per acre, to two millions yearly.

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.

"Acres and acres," he said.