Virgate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 204 anagrams from letters in virgate (aegirtv).
1815-25; Latin virgātus; see virga, -ate1
But the term 'virgate' does not, like them, speak for itself.
Is it right to assume that this virgate may be taken as a pattern of the rest?
The virgate or yard-land was the normal holding, as it was afterwards.
In the one case it would resemble our virgate, in the other our half-hide.
The virgate and the hide were probably, like the acre, actual holdings before they were adopted as abstract land measures.
The heriot of a virgate was generally an ox, or money payment of its value.
Further facts relating to the hide and the virgate are elicited by extending the inquiry into the west of England.
So again, if a iugum is quartered, its quarter can be called a virgate.
The word 'virgate,' or 'virgada,' was used in Brittany as well as in England.
Earl Roger has one virgate; this lies in his manor of Shingay.