ploughgate en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Scotland) The Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
Not having one ploughgate of land.
1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ploughgates | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| plowgate | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
daugh (4 ploughgates) · carucate (English equivalents)
Hyponyms
ròd · ochdamh · notionally (acre, Scottish acre, Scots acre, acair) · ruid · Scots rood · carucate (English equivalents) · Scottish rood · 1⁄8 ploughgate (See oxgang) · rood · 1⁄100 ploughgate (acre, Scottish acre, Scots acre, acair)