Virgate Sentence Examples

They were bound to the soil and occupied holdings of scattered strips (amounting usually to a virgate or 30 acres) in return for a payment partly in labour and partly in kind.

Trophi virgate exsertile; germary paired; genito-urinary cloaca opening above the neck in the male, subapically in the female.

Of the other villeins, 12 had ½ hide each, 20 had one virgate, and the other 40 held ½ virgate each.

There [is] 1 villein on 1 virgate, and 6 bordars on 5 acres.