Borough vs Hidate - What's the difference?
borough | hidate |
(obsolete) A fortified town.
(rare) A town or city.
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
(historical, British, legal) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
(historical, British, legal) The pledge or surety thus given.
(historical) To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
* 1971 , C. W. Atkin, "Herefordshire", chapter 2 of Henry Clifford Darby and I. B. Terrett (editors), The Domesday Geography of Midland England , Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-08078-1,
(historical) To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
* 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis” in, The English Historical Review , volume 35,
* 1987 , Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-1307-8,
As a proper noun borough
is the area, properly called southwark, just south of london bridge.As a verb hidate is
(historical|transitive) to divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.borough
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Alternative forms
* boroNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
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Derived terms
* boroughhood * -borough * municipal borough * parliamentary boroughhidate
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Verb
(hidat)page 57:
- In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated .
page 82:
- the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.
page 27:
- Some of the king's manors were not hidated', and some were ' hidated but did not geld.