Hist. [f. VIRGATE sb. + -ER1.] A person holding or cultivating a virgate of land.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 416. Even the villein virgater on the monastic manors of the thirteenth century is often expected to have four oxen.
1900. N. & Q., 9th Ser. VI. 382/1. Next above the four virgaters just mentioned are … four bovators.
