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ploughgates

ploughgates is the plural of ploughgate.

Meaning of ploughgate

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

Questions about ploughgates

What is ploughgates the plural of?
Ploughgates is the plural of ploughgate.

Words near ploughgates in the dictionary

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

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