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plowgate

plowgate is the alternative form 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

Forms of plowgate

pluralplowgates

Questions about plowgate

What is plowgate the alternative form of?
Plowgate is the alternative form of ploughgate.

Words near plowgate in the dictionary

  1. plowers
  2. plowest
  3. ploweth
  4. plowgang
  5. plowgangs
  6. plowgate
  7. plowgates
  8. plowgirl
  9. plowgirls
  10. plowhead
  11. plowheads

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