Obs. [ad. OE. burh-ʓeat gate of a castle.]
a. 1000. Thorpe, Laws, I. 190. Gif ceorl hæfde fif hida aʓenes landes, cirican and cycenan, bellhus, & burhʓeat-setl & sunder note on cynʓes healle.
1680. Jani Anglorum Fac. Nova, 32. What in Ancient time made a Churl … become a Theyn or Noble … was five hides of his own Land, a Church and a Kitchin, a Bell-house and a Burrough-gate.
