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I'm pretty sure an acre was originally defined as the area of land that a medieval peasant could plow in one day.
There. I'm glad that's all cleared up.
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For those of us that regularly plow large tracts of land using manual tools, this is an extremely useful unit. Anyways, if that isn't a usual activity for you, an acre is an area of 10 square chains, or roughly an area 1 mile long and 8 feet wide.
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1 mile long and 8 feet wide.
That might be accurate but that's like the worst way to imagine the area.
You could have just said about 220 feet in each direction.
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8 miles long, 1 foot wide... I'm pretty sure that's worse.
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just plow a field and find out, it's simple really.
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I've been milkin' and plowin' so long
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
Fool!
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Nah you'd either overestimate because you're not starving and disfigured from the knights from the neighbouring manor maiming you for fun, or you'd underestimate because no one is whipping you and threatening to kill your children if you don't meet your quota.
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Having spent a good part of my life in the countryside, that's actually helpful
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