Meanings
nounploughgate (plural ploughgates)
plural ploughgates · alternative plowgate
- ScotlandThe Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
Not having one ploughgate of land.
1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
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