furrow #artwiculate's 220 yards; the distance you can drive a plough, pulled by an oxen, in a heavy soil, before he needed a rest. Then you turned him round & began another furrow. If you did that all day, the width of the furrows completed was 22 yards.
At the end of the day the area of th furrows was 22*220=4840 sq yards, commonly used to #artwiculate an acre. The oxen was tied up at night with a chain. To tie up th oxen at the end of th day, you had to go & get your chain. A chain is therefore 22 yards.the width of the furrows
To get from the town to new new furrows you had to stop to rest the oxen 8 times. This is 220 yards * 8 = 1760 linear yards which is used to #artwiculate 1 mile.
Nuh, I don't think furrows can be used to #artwiculate anything important, at all.
Tho some say, even without the furrows, it can be said to #artwiculate important stuff today; like the cricketers try & tell us that there has to be something that explain why a cricket pitch is 22 yards. But could that be furrows. Or is that the captain's forehead at call Out!
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