Definition of "feddan" in English

noun

1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.

   • […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]