Crossword-Solution: CONACRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conacre | v. t. | To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. |
| Conacre | n. | A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. |
| Conacre | n. | Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. |
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Sentences with CONACRE (5)
The rest of their living was made either out of a conacre potato patch, for which they were charged a tremendous rent, or eked out by the excursion of one member of the family to England for the reaping season.
This bit of arable land is let to the surrounding tenants on the conacre principle--that is, the holders are not even yearly tenants, but have the land let to them for the crop, the season while their potatoes or oats are on the ground.
CONACRE (a corruption of corn-acre), in Ireland, a system of letting land, mostly in small patches, and usually for the growth of potatoes as a kind of return instead of wages.
The popular evidence would comprise the prices obtained by the tenant for a sale of his interest or _bonâ fide_ offers which he had received for it, evidence of the letting value or judicial rents of similar holdings, evidence of the sums paid for conacre or agistment, evidence of the long and punctual payment of a real rent, or of the long arrears of a nominal rent, and evidence of the prosperity or poverty of the persons who had successively lived off the produce of the holding.
The neighboring gentry are bent, as conacre has ceased to pay, on supplanting the population by cattle.