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Definition of Desyatin
1. a Russian measurement of land [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desyatin
Literary usage of Desyatin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Future of Russia by Rudolf Emil Martin (1906)
"Over and above the 131 million desyatin ... apart from Finland, Poland, and the
Caucasian districts—has ninety-three million desyatin ..."
2. The Future of War in Its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations by Jan Bloch (1899)
"... in working the land with their own resources, and lease it to the tenants by
the desyatin* at a rent, for a proportion of the harvest, or for labour. ..."
3. Is War Now Impossible?: Being an Abridgment of "The War of the Future in Its by Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch (1899)
"... in working the land with their own resources, and lease it to the tenants by
the desyatin,* at a rent, for a proportion of the harvest, or for labour. ..."
4. Modern Weapons and Modern War: Being an Abridgment of "The War of the Future by Jan Bloch (1900)
"... in working the land with their own resources, and lease it to the tenants by
the desyatin* at a rent, for a proportion of the harvest, or for labour. ..."
5. The Land of Riddles: (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz (1904)
"Remember that this is a yearly tenure. It is a premium on soil robbery. Sixty rubles
for the tenure of one desyatin. The peasant cannot raise that amount, ..."
6. Russia as Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1904)
"... with the people at Orsk. He informed me that land could be bought on these
flats for a rouble and a half a desyatin (2700 acres); that a cow cost £3 as. ..."
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