vergée

English

Etymology

From Jèrriais vergée, Guernésiais vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee (“measured land”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvəːʒeɪ/

Noun

vergée (plural vergées)

1. (Channel Islands) A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 34:

     Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vɛʁ.ʒe/

Noun

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. rood (quarter of an acre)

Verb

vergée f

1. feminine past participle of verger

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Guernésiais

Noun

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. vergée