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plough-gate
plough-gate, plow- north. Eng. and Sc. Now only Hist. (ˈplaʊgeɪt) [f. as prec. + gate n.2; cf. ox-gate.] Originally, perhaps the same as plough-land (and hence commonly used by Scottish antiquarian writers to render carrucata); but in later times apparently applied to a much smaller quantity of land...
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Bauk (field)
of Agriculture in Perth (1799) says:
"Large slices of land are left unploughed, as boundaries between the alternate ridges of neighbours, in the same plough-gate
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plough-gang
† ˈplough-gang Sc. Obs. [f. plough n.1 + gang n.1 (app. a late formation on analogy of ox-gang).] A measure of arable land; by Jamieson taken as a synonym of plough-gate. (The statements of its extent differ widely, and may point to different local uses: quot. 1793 makes it 13 acres, i.e. one eighth...
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David Maitland Makgill Crichton
to the Philosophical Association of Cupar; secured a bridge instead of a level crossing over the railway at that town; and obtained a reduction of the plough-gate
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davach
† davach, -och Sc. Hist. In 7 dawach(e. [OIr. dabach, dabhach vat, tub (perhaps as a corn-measure); cf. the similar uses of pint, pottle, and gallon, as measures of land in Anglo-Irish. In med.L. davaca (erron. -ata). A conjectured derivation from damh ox, is erroneous. Dabach occurs as a land-measu...
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suling
suling Hist. (ˈsʊlɪŋ) Forms: 1 swuluncg, sulung (rare sulong), Domesday Bk. solin, 2 solling, (also 7 Hist.) swuling, (also 9 Hist.) swilling, 2–3 (also 7–9 Hist.) sulling, suling, 4 swol(l)ing, -yng, swyling, suyling, 4–5 swylling, 9 Hist. sullung. [OE. swulung, sulung, probably vbl. n. of an unrec...
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carrucate
† carucate, carrucate Feudal Syst. (ˈkærjuːkeɪt) [ad. med.L. car(r)ūcāta plough-gate, plough-land, f. car(r)ūca plough (see carue). The ONF. regular repr. of carrūcāta was car(r)uée, central F. char(r)uée: see -ate1. L. carrūca (f. carr-us car) was originally ‘a sort of state coach or chariot’; this...
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