Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formerly, a virgate equivalent to two oxgangs; a yard-land; in Scotland, twenty-six acres—that is, as much as could be tilled with a plow or mowed with a scythe by the husbandman.
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Examples
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Also, that she held in dower 4s. per annum issuing out of a husband-land in Cossay.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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Also, that she held in dower 4s. per annum issuing out of a husband-land in Cossay.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812
hernesheir commented on the word husband-land
Twenty-six acres of sok and syith land. Land that could be plowed or mowed with a scythe. Scots.
May 23, 2011