the back forty acres, that part of a farm most remote from the house and barn.
- 1961  "He was settin' in this here Dooley's back 40 one day an' he looked up and seen one a them there four-engine bombers they're flyin' tuh Roosia. . . ."
- 1961  There was a little piece saying that Jake Trumper was going to [make] rain on Tuesday next at Tincher's back forty. . . .
- 1964  Remember when we used to cut our own Christmas tree in the back forty.