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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.
Jamieson says: ‘A plough-gate or plough-gang of land is now [1825] understood to include about forty Scots acres [= 505/6 Imperial acres] at an average. Fife.’
1565Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 235, I bequyethe vnto my said Wyfe during hir Lyfe naturall my toure in Brankston wt the two plewegait of Land And all other comoditts theirto belongyng. 1789Pilkington View Derby. II. 77 The charter of Edward II..grants the canons at Calke possession of a plough-gate of land in Leke. 1791Statist. Acc. Scotl. I. 121–2 There are 56 plough-gates and a half in the parish [Innerwick]. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 392 A number of plough-gates in one village, or several tenants about one plough, having their land mixed with one another, is a great bar to the improvement of any country. 1806Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2) 412/1 The island [Papa Westray]..is divided into 24 ploughgates of land, and contains about 240 inhabitants. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, The defences proponed say, that non constat at this present what is a plough-gate of land, whilk uncertainty is sufficient to elide the conclusions of the libel. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 135 The agricultural measurement in Scotland upon which the regium gildum was levied..was the Ploughgate, or carucate of 104 acres. |