ploughgate
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ploughgate (plural ploughgates)
- (Scotland) The Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
- Not having one ploughgate of land.
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- (Scottish, 1⁄2 ploughgate): See ochdamh
- (Scottish, 1⁄8 ploughgate): See oxgang
- (Scottish, 1⁄100 ploughgate, notionally): acre, Scottish acre, Scots acre, acair
- (Scottish, 1⁄400 ploughgate): rood, Scottish rood, Scots rood, ruid, ròd
- (English equivalents): See carucate