ploughgate

English

Alternative forms

plowgate

Noun

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.

Synonyms

(Scottish, uncommon): daugh
(English equivalents): See carucate

Hypernyms

(Scottish, 4 ploughgates): daugh
(English equivalents): See carucate

Hyponyms

(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

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