- 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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could vary from
village to village, but was
typically around 15 acres. A
virgate was the
amount of land
tillable by two oxen in a
ploughing season. A carucate...
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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...
- area
maintained the
Welsh systems.
Aratrum terrae English units: hide
virgate, nook,
farundel acre
Scottish units in the East Highlands:
daugh oxgang...
- virucide, virulence, virulent,
virus virg- rod, twig
Latin virga virga,
virgate, virgula, virgularian, virgulate,
virgule virgin-
maiden Latin virgō, virginis...
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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 Technical atmosphere –...
- held by
Archbishop Lanfranc. Its
Domesday ****ets
included 16
hides and 1
virgate of land; a church; a mill
worth 5s; 38 plough-teams; 8
acres (3.2 ha) of...
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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)...
