ploughgaten.

1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 235 I bequyethe vnto my said Wyfe during hir Lyfe naturall my toure in Brankston w^t the two plewegait of Land And all other comoditts theirto belongyng.

1611 in G. R. Kinloch Select. Minutes Synod of Fife (1837) 42 Ilk housband man labouring ane pleuch gaitt of land.

1667 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 226 40 sh. yearly as the viccarage of the pleughgang of Carimuir and as much for the pleughgate of Caringring.

1764 Consideration on Acts Parl. Relative to Highways 48 A ploughgate or ploughland seems to be the best rule for rating occupiers of land... In different counties of Scotland the rent of a ploughgate differs very widely.

1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire II. ii. 77 The charter of Edward II..grants the canons at Calke possession of a plough-gate of land in Leke.

1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 121–2 There are 56 plough-gates and a half in the parish [of Innerwick].

1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Papa-Westray [The island] is divided into 24 ploughgates of land, and contains about 240 inhabitants.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 315 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.

1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 374 In 1833 however a new Act of Parliament was obtained..when it was understood that sixty acres Scotch..should be taken as a plough-gate.

1872 E. 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.

1944 Proc. Sc. Antiquarian Soc. 78 49 A more suitable definition of the ploughgate of 104 acres would be that it was the arable land pertaining to a one-plough holding.