The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yardland
Yardland \Yard"land`\, n. (O. Eng. Law) A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate. [Obs.]
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yardland
n. (context historical English) (altname: virgate)
Usage examples of "yardland".
The whole of his yardland would not bring him in a penny if it rested with him to work it, it's the boy who makes shift to get a crop from it.
It was always on the lowest and least that the weight came down in the end, just as debt found its way down from the king through his barons, through their tenants-in-chief and their sub-tenants, to the free cottagers and the bound villeins on their poor little yardlands of earth.