virgated

comparative more virgated · superlative most virgated

1. obsoleteStriped; streaked with rod-shaped (long and narrow) streaks.

   The Felis, with an elongated tail, and virgated spots .

   1752, John Hill, An history of animals, page 543

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   This species is distinguished by its very long, virgated, flowering branches.

   1840, Jacob Bigelow, Florula Bostoniensis, page 167

2. historicalHeld or farmed by a virgater; Having been divided into holdings for virgaters.

   This common tenure pertained to newly assarted holdings and pieces rented out from the demesne as well as to older, virgated areas, even though the former paid only money rent whereas the latter owed field work .

   1970, Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, page 302

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   The virgated patterns of holdings, stable, regular, and symmetrical, have already suffered greatly at the hands of historians who have noticed in the extents and surveys the non-virgated bits of land in the hands of villeins and also discovered places and whole regions in which the regular pattern of holdings had altogether disappeared if it ever existed.

   2008, M. M. Postan, Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy, page 144

   Outstandingly large composite holdings across the estate were mostly constructed by those customary tenants, chiefly virgaters and half virgaters, who acquired additional virgated holdings and often smaller properties as well.

   2010, John Mullan, R. H. Britnell, Land and Family, page 137