@vivchook Thanks, Vivienne. I have been waiting for the term furrow, as you can see, to come up since 1983. But it never does, until now, that is. Amazing how we have all accepted these numbers, just because the Mother Country told us to, without asking, Y? a symbol of our learned humility
@vivchook even the cricket never chirps, does it?
@vivchook And in answer to you #QandA, I think you may be onto something there. A furrow is certainly an agricultural #thread of the sixteenth century, which seems to be a long time before the only one to #Twitter were in the trees.
@vivchook We might use @ThreadReaderApp #unroll to unroll this one on #furrow?

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4 Dec
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.
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