ploughgate

noun

ploughgate

noun

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 Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

Synonyms: daugh, carucate
Hypernyms: daugh, carucate
Hyponyms: ochdamh, 1⁄8 ploughgate, 1⁄100 ploughgate, notionally, rood, Scottish rood, Scots rood, ruid, ròd, carucate

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