Obs. Apparently a usual proper name for a long narrow field containing an acre. (Now preserved as the name of a well-known London street.) In quots. allusive = one’s estate or patrimony.
1607. Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, I. i. But where’s Long-acre? in my vncle’s conscience, which is 3 yeares voyage about.
1608. Yorksh. Trag., I. ix. In a word, Sir, I have consumed all, played away long-acre.
1659. Lady Alimony, II. i. B 3 b. It will run like Quicksilver over all their Husbands Demains: and in very short time make a quick dispatch of all his Long acre.
