back forty

back forty

noun
remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
Also, back 40.


Origin:
apparently because forty acres was a typical size for such a piece of land
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Back forty is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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