Crossword-Solution: ARPENT 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The portage was said to be only fifty acres long (the arpent is the popular measure of distance here), but it passed over a ridge of newly burned land, and was so entangled with ruined woods and desolate of birds and flowers that it seemed to us at least five miles.

But I'm not go more mebbe t'ree arpent, w'en de sky is get black all roun', An' de win' she blow lak I never see, an' de beeg snowstorm come down.

Here, La Salle had traced out the circuit of a palisaded village, and assigned to each settler half an arpent, or about a third of an acre, within the enclosure, for which he was to render to the young seigneur a yearly acknowledgment of three capons, besides six deniers--that is, half a sou-- in money.

The habitant paid usually in _cens et rentes_ twenty sols (about twenty cents) for each arpent (192 feet) of frontage; instead of cash usually he might pay in kind--a live capon or a small measure (demi-minot) of grain for each arpent.

Supposing them three toises apart, there will be one hundred to the arpent, which gives three hundred livres a year, besides the corn growing on the same ground.