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单词 virgate
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virgaten.

Brit. /ˈvəːɡət/, /ˈvəːɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈvərɡət/, /ˈvərˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: < medieval Latin virgāta (sc. terræ ), < Latin virga rod, used as a rendering of Old English gięrd-land yardland n.
Historical.
1. An early English land-measure, varying greatly in extent, but in many cases averaging thirty acres.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈvəːɡət/, /ˈvəːɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈvərɡət/, /ˈvərˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin virgātus, < virga rod.
Botany and Zoology.
1. Rod-like; long, slender, and straight.
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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.
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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).
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