"four score" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1796, George Colman, the Younger, The Iron Chest: […], Dublin: […] Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Rice, and G. Folingsey, act I, scene II, page 14",
          "text": "Blanch. How old art thou now, Adam? / Wint[erton]. Four ſcore, come Martlemas: and, by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.",
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          "ref": "1826, William Hone, The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, column 841",
          "text": "His eldest son is at this present four score years of age, and his second son may now reckon three score; at our lady-day last he made up the years of his life just 102.",
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          "ref": "1834, Thomas P[ascal] Jones, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania; Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Franklin Institute, […], page 178",
          "text": "Although this patent is taken for a very important article, the door lock, the specification of the invention does not contain more than four score words.",
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