A 40-acre section of land, located in the northernmost part of a farm or ranch.
I headed out to the barn for a ten-minute milking job, and the cow took off and ran to the far end of the north forty.
Farms, ranches, or agricultural land collectively.
In Dallas and Houston, the dominant architectural forms are glass office towers and air-conditioned shopping malls that owe more to the Bauhaus than to the North Forty.
Any place which is remote.
[P]arts of him, uh, are as far away as the north forty. Muscle has been drawn out. . . . His arms—can you imagine?—feel longer.
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Nord vierzig
nord quarante
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