The difference between Virgate and Yard

When used as nouns, virgate means the yardland: an obsolete english land measure usually comprising ¼ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres, whereas yard means a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (wikipedia).


Virgate is also adjective with the meaning: rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches.

Yard is also verb with the meaning: to confine to a yard.

check bellow for the other definitions of Virgate and Yard

  1. Virgate as a noun (historical):

    The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¼ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

  1. Virgate as an adjective (particularly, _, botany):

    Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches.

  2. Virgate as an adjective (mycology):

    Finely striped, often with dark fibers.

  1. Yard as a noun:

    A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).

  2. Yard as a noun:

    An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

  3. Yard as a noun:

    A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

  4. Yard as a noun (Jamaica):

    One's house or home.

  1. Yard as a verb (transitive):

    To confine to a yard.

  1. Yard as a noun:

    A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

  2. Yard as a noun:

    Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

  3. Yard as a noun (nautical):

    Any spar carried aloft. A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

  4. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    A branch, twig, or shoot.

  5. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    A staff, rod, or stick.

  6. Yard as a noun (obsolete, medical):

    A penis.

  7. Yard as a noun (US, slang, uncommon):

    100 dollars.

  8. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

  9. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.

  10. Yard as a noun (obsolete):

    The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.

  1. Yard as a noun (finance):

    109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

    Examples:

    "I need to hedge a yard of yen."

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