different between yardland vs virgate
yardland
English
Etymology
A contraction of yard of land.
Noun
yardland (plural yardlands)
- (historical) Synonym of virgate.
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virgate
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin virg?ta. Doublet of vergée.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /v????e?t/, /?v???t/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v????t/
Noun
virgate (plural virgates)
- (historical) The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising 1?4 of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.
Usage notes
The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed to the Saxon and Norman kings and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year, meaning the yardland was expected to produce five shillings (3 Tower ounces of sterling silver). In fact, the yardland became associated with its own obligations and thus also varied, in some places being reckoned as 1?6 of a hide rather than 1?4. Virgate is a later retronym used to distinguish the unit from the yard of 3 feet.
Synonyms
- yardland, yard, yard of land
Hypernyms
- (400 virgates) See hundred
- (4 virgates) See carucate
Hyponyms
- (1?2 virgate & for Scottish divisions): See oxgang
- (1?4 virgate): See nook
- (1?8 virgate): See fardel
- (various & for further subdivisions): See acre
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin virg?tus.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?v???t/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v????t/
Adjective
virgate (comparative more virgate, superlative most virgate)
- Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches.
- (mycology) Finely striped, often with dark fibers.
Anagrams
- vitrage
Latin
Adjective
virg?te
- vocative masculine singular of virg?tus
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