Definition of "jugerum" []

• A Roman unit of measurement of area, equivalent to 0.65 acres (noun)

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• "C.J. Solinus (Plinii Simia) says, “Indica maria balænas habent ultra spatia quatuor jugerum.”"
• "They yoked their oxen and called the path they occupied a _jugerum_ (_jugum_, a cross-beam, or a yoke), and this in time came to be their familiar standard of square measure, containing about two thirds of an acre."
• "My father left me a jugerum of land and a small cottage in which I was born and bred, and I am living there today."