Meaning Bovate
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Bovate1) An eighth of a carucate. Sometimes reckoned at 15 acres; land ploughed by two oxen. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213) 2) An ox-gang, or as much land as an ox [..]
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Bovatebovata Derived from the Latin word bo, meaning ox, a bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed by one eighth of a plough, in other words equivalent to one eighth of a carucate. Also used fo [..]
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(historical) oxgang|lang=en
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