单词 | virgate |
释义 | virgaten. Historical. 1. An early English land-measure, varying greatly in extent, but in many cases averaging thirty acres. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > hide > quarter hide or virgate yard688 yardland14.. verge of land1467 farthing1602 virgate1655 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 337 Indeed, it is beneath a Prince..to stoop to each Virgate and rod of ground. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Virgate of Land, See Yard-land. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 137/2 Virge, or Virgate of land is 20, in some places 24 Acres, or in some 30 Acres. 1725 in Peter Langtoft's Chron. II. 600 Wallingford..contained three hundred and twenty acres of ground, every virgat comprehending fourty acres. 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 436 The survey was made by..carucates, virgates and acres. 1781 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 45 I have discovered that lady Elisabeth Montacute..possessed one virgate, about the year 1330. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 173/2 Reckoning four virgates in each hide and thirty acres to make a virgate. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 548 In Sussex we find a virgate of land at Apredoc which Harold [etc.]. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. 347 The hide is generally regarded as made up of four, but it may well be of six virgates. 2. As a linear measure: A rod or pole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > rod, pole, or perch yard900 roodOE perchc1300 rodc1380 fall1388 goad1391 polea1500 lug1562 farthing1602 land-pole1603 gad1706 virgate1772 perk1825 esperduct1866 gad-stick1866 1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 42 The first land pier..shall be built..by the bishop of Rochester; to plank three virgates or Yards, and to lay three sullivas or large beams on the bridge. 1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 152 Wood pasture three quarentens long, and one quarenten and one virgate broad. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). virgateadj. Botany and Zoology. 1. Rod-like; long, slender, and straight. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape fingered1597 fistular1640 umbilicated1693 pectinal1705 fornicated1750 deltoid1753 linguiform1753 panduriform1753 lingulated1754 campaniform1758 augmented1760 ringed1760 securiform1760 urceolate1760 utricular1760 lingulate1763 vermicular1766 pandurated1771 navicular1793 semicolumnar1793 ungulate1802 capitellate1808 meniscoid1821 virgate1821 mitriform1824 pulvinate1824 caudated1829 vulviform1829 caudate1830 circinate1830 intruded1830 trochlear1830 scalariform1836 hippocrepiform1847 neottious1850 pulviniform1851 foxglove-shaped1856 clathroid1857 molariform1857 velate1857 strombuliform1859 calceiform1860 coralline1860 forniciform1860 urceolar1860 calceolate1861 frustulose1866 pandurate1866 intruse1870 scalar1880 meniscoidal1881 fingerposted1885 applanate1887 trochleariform1895 naviculoid1898 halonate1911 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > pointed, tapering, or elongated ensiform?1541 acuminate1634 aculeated1657 lanceolated1752 sagittated1752 subacute1752 subulated1752 linear1753 subulate1757 spinous1758 lanceolate1760 sagittate1760 sublinear1761 obverse1776 lanced1787 long-acuminate1804 subuliform1804 lanceolar1810 acuminous1813 virgate1821 spiny1828 apiculate1830 ensate1830 aciculate1831 spiniform1833 fibriform1846 obcuneate1870 fusiform1887 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 17 Branches virgate, elongated, one-flowered. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 47 From this kind of branch [sc. vimen], that called a virgate stem, caulis virgatus, differs only in being..more rigid. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 652 Branchlets..long before branching, and virgate. Categories » 2. ‘Twiggy; producing many weak branchlets or twigs’ ( Treasury Bot., 1866). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1655adj.1821 |
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