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  • noun Plural form of ploughgate.

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Examples

  • And it should be a field of four ploughgates, and the clod should yield before the ploughshare.

    Book XVIII Homer 1909

  • And without the courtyard hard by the door is a great garden, off our ploughgates, and a hedge runs round on either side.

    Book VII Homer 1909

  • And it should be a field of four ploughgates, and the clod should yield before the ploughshare.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • And without the courtyard hard by the door is a great garden, off our ploughgates, and a hedge runs round on either side.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

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