DCHP-2
section DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
THIS ENTRY MAY CONTAIN OUTDATED INFORMATION, TERMS and EXAMPLES
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."
- 1849 The practice is less prevalent than formerly, of forming selfish and unwarrantable designs upon the teacher on his entrance into a Section.