- The
virgate, yardland, or yard of land (Latin: virgāta [terrae]) was an
English unit of land.
Primarily a
measure of tax ****essment
rather than area,...
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Virgate (from the
Latin virgātus, "rod-like") is an
adjective in
botanical and
mycological jargon. In
botanical jargon,
virgate most
often refers to plants...
- to
considerable local variation similar to the
variation in carucates,
virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.
These may have been
multiples of the customary...
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reckoned in
hides which were
divided into four yardlands,
later known as
virgates. A
ploughgate was the
Scottish equivalent in the
south and east of the...
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ploughing season. A
carucate was the
amount of land
tillable by a team of
eight oxen in a
ploughing season. This was
equal to 8
oxgangs or 4
virgates....
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arable land of six
virgates each. The
acreage of a hide and
virgate varied; but at Elton, a hide was 144
acres (58 ha) and a
virgate was 24
acres (10 ha)...
- was
recorded as two
hides and four "small
virgates" in the fee of Berkhamsted. (There were 10 "small
virgates" to a hide.)
Thorney Abbey had an estate...
- Richard's ransom. A hide was
usually made up of four
virgates although exceptionally Sus**** had
eight virgates to the hide. A
similar measure was used in the...
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carucates and
bovates seen in the
Domesday Book was derived. There, the
virgate represented land
which could be
ploughed by a pair of oxen, and so amounted...
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Morgen Oxgang Pari – a unit of area
equal to
about 1
hectare Quinaria Tathe Virgate Poncelet – unit of
power Sthène – unit of
force Ald Alen Aṅgula Arabic...