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ploughgate

ploughgate noun: the Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.

Noun

ploughgate (plural ploughgates)

  1. (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...
    Synonyms:
    daugh, carucate

Synonyms of ploughgate

Forms of ploughgate

pluralploughgates
alternative formplowgate

Questions about ploughgate

What does ploughgate mean?
Ploughgate means the Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
What part of speech is ploughgate?
Ploughgate is a noun.
What is the plural of ploughgate?
The plural of ploughgate is ploughgates.

Words near ploughgate in the dictionary

  1. ploughers
  2. ploughest
  3. plougheth
  4. ploughgang
  5. ploughgangs
  6. ploughgate
  7. ploughgates
  8. ploughgirl
  9. ploughgirls
  10. ploughhead
  11. ploughheads

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