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particate Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈpɑːtɪkət|
Also perticat.
[ad. med.L. perticāta (also particāta), f. pertica a perch: cf. bovate, carrucate.]
A Scotch rood (as a measure of land); one fourth of the Scotch acre, containing 40 square falls, rods, or raips, each of 36 sq. ells; or 13,690 sq. ft.
(The Imperial rood contains 10,890 sq. ft.)
[1597Skene De Verb. Sign., Particata vel perticata terræ..ane ruid of land.] 1673in Macfarlane Genealog. Collect. (1900) II. 368 Four Several Tennements of Land with a Particat of Land and Kiln and house built thereon. 1793Statist. Acc. Scotl. VIII. 526 note, Taxed with one penny of the kingdom of Scotland, upon the ground of his half particate. 1864Jeffrey Hist. Roxburgh. IV. viii. 272 Each tenant is named in the charter [to the Burgh of Hawick], with the number of particates which he was possessed of.
b. Comb., as particate-man, the holder of a particate of land.
1864Jeffrey Hist. Roxburgh. IV. viii. 283 The bestial belonging to the particate man. |