Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches. / (mycology) Finely striped, often with dark fibers.

(historical) The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¹⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

plural of virgate

(obsolete) Striped; streaked.

A person who owned or cultivated a virgate of agricultural land

plural of virgater