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section

• 1 n. a subdision of a school district.

  See also: school district  school section (def. 1)  

  • 1849  The practice is less prevalent than formerly, of forming selfish and unwarrantable designs upon the teacher on his entrance into a Section.
  • 1871  Now it is to be hoped that the examining Boards appointed by the Sections, will inaugurate something different from this effete way of doing things.
  • 1902  The two years of Archibald Munro's régime were the golden age of the school, and for a whole generation "The Section" regarded that period as the standard for comparison in the following years.

• 2 † n. Esp. West one square mile of land (640 acres).

  See also: quarter-section  half-section  

  • 1842  (1955)  Many years ago the whole province was laid out in sections, and quarter sections, dividing the whole country like a "damboard."
  • 1873, 1877  . . . the whole of the Province has been surveyed, divided off into townships, sections and sub-sections. . . .
  • 1957  Paul owned two sections on the shores of an immense slough known as Middle Lake that lies well to the east of Saskatoon.
  • 1963  . . . there are 36 sections to a township, so you will understand why the homesteader who cuts hay or timber in violation of certain regulations commonly boasts that the hay, or whatever it was, came off "section 37."