Virgates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 441 anagrams from letters in virgates (aegirstv).
1815-25; Latin virgātus; see virga, -ate1
Further facts relating to the hide and the virgate are elicited by extending the inquiry into the west of England.
Earl Roger has one virgate; this lies in his manor of Shingay.
In the one case it would resemble our virgate, in the other our half-hide.
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.
But the term 'virgate' does not, like them, speak for itself.
The virgate and the hide were probably, like the acre, actual holdings before they were adopted as abstract land measures.
Is it right to assume that this virgate may be taken as a pattern of the rest?
The heriot of a virgate was generally an ox, or money payment of its value.
The virgate or yard-land was the normal holding, as it was afterwards.