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From Dutchmorgen and GermanMorgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.
(chiefly historical) A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare.
1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 68:
‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’