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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PARTICATE, n. Also particat(t). A measure of land, the Latin particata, consisting of a Scots rood or 13,690 sq. ft., one quarter of a Scots acre. Now obs. or hist. and only in reference to Hawick.

Comb. particate-man, the owner or tenant of a particate of land. [′pɑrtɪket]Rxb. 1715 J. J. Vernon Par. Hawick (1900) 120:
The said Pew was allocat to Robert Deanes, particat man of the lands of Hawick.Lth. 1741 D. Robertson S. Leith Rec. (1925) 58:
The village of Newhaven with the whole houses, acres, and particatts of land belonging thereto.Inv. 1749 Trans. Inv. Scientific Soc. IX. 272:
One particate of burgh bigged ground, with the ancient house upon it called the School House.Rxb. c.1780 Craig and Laing Hawick Trad. (1898) 192:
The proprietors of the different particates built a number of houses.Rxb. 1815 J. Wilson Ann. Hawick (1850) 392:
If the particate men, mentioned in the Charter, had a right of property in the Common, and, as the suspenders allege, the whole property, it would have been most unjust to have authorised a lease of any part of it, without allowing them at least a share in the rents.Rxb. 1864 A. Jeffrey Hist. Rxb. IV. 272, 283:
Each tenant is named in the charter [to the Burgh of Hawick], with the number of particates which he was possessed of. . . . The bestial belonging to the particate man.