Virgate Definition

vûrgāt
adjective
Rod-shaped.
Webster's New World
Long, thin, and stiff, with few branches.
Webster's New World
(mycology) Finely striped, often with dark fibers.
Wiktionary
noun
A former English unit of land measure varying greatly in size, but most commonly equal to about 30 acres.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Virgate

Noun

Singular:
virgate
Plural:
virgates

Origin of Virgate

  • Medieval Latin virgāta from feminine of Latin virgātus relating to a rod virgate1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin virgātus made of twigs from virga twig

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin virgātus.

    From Wiktionary

Virgate Sentence Examples

  • They were bound to the soil and occupied holdings of scattered strips (amounting usually to a virgate or 30 acres) in return for a payment partly in labour and partly in kind.

  • Trophi virgate exsertile; germary paired; genito-urinary cloaca opening above the neck in the male, subapically in the female.

  • Of the other villeins, 12 had ½ hide each, 20 had one virgate, and the other 40 held ½ virgate each.

  • There [is] 1 villein on 1 virgate, and 6 bordars on 5 acres.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIR

Words Ending With

ETEATE

Unscrambles

virgate

Words Starting With V and Ending With E

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