"cawnie" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "cawnies",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, William Taylor, Examination and Analysis of the Mackenzie Manuscripts, page 83",
          "text": "This fort of mud was formerly built by the Curumbas, covering forty cawnies of ground with two boundary walls, and was long ruled by them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, John Bruce Norton, A Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq., Joint Secretary of the Board of Controul, from John Bruce Norton, Esq. on the Condition and Requirements of the Presidency of Madras, page 82",
          "text": "If we take the best cotton land, paying a land tax of Rupees 3-5-5 per cawnie, the proportion would be upwards of 33 per cent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1862, An Essay on the culture and manufacture of Indigo, page 17",
          "text": "We shall now consider the cost of cultivating one cawnie of dry Poonjay land with Indigo by the native cultivator who does not irrigate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Deborah Sutton, Other Landscapes, page xii",
          "text": "On the Nilgiris, the cawnie was initially utilised exclusively in measuring settler occupation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cawney"
        },
        {
          "word": "cawny"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
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    }
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  "word": "cawnie"
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    {
      "form": "cawnies",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, William Taylor, Examination and Analysis of the Mackenzie Manuscripts, page 83",
          "text": "This fort of mud was formerly built by the Curumbas, covering forty cawnies of ground with two boundary walls, and was long ruled by them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, John Bruce Norton, A Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq., Joint Secretary of the Board of Controul, from John Bruce Norton, Esq. on the Condition and Requirements of the Presidency of Madras, page 82",
          "text": "If we take the best cotton land, paying a land tax of Rupees 3-5-5 per cawnie, the proportion would be upwards of 33 per cent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1862, An Essay on the culture and manufacture of Indigo, page 17",
          "text": "We shall now consider the cost of cultivating one cawnie of dry Poonjay land with Indigo by the native cultivator who does not irrigate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2009, Deborah Sutton, Other Landscapes, page xii",
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      ],
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        "(historical) A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India."
      ],
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      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cawney"
    },
    {
      "word": "cawny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cawnie"
}