单词 | bovate |
释义 | bovaten. An oxgang, or as much land as one ox could plough in a year; one-eighth of the carucate or ploughland; varying in amount from 10 to 18 acres according to the system of tillage, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of pounds worthOE school land1466 shot1478 ground1548 officiary1594 canton1643 lotment1651 bovate1688 fraction1789 mahal1793 erf1812 fractional section1815 forty1845 tan1871 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 59 Bovatt of Land is as much as 15 Acres, in some places 20 Acres. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata i. 121 Gavels, measur'd out by Boviats and Carucats. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 345 William, the son of Roger de Beltoft, is returned as having two parts of one bovate of land. 1883 F. Seebohm Eng. Village Community 61 The full husband-land or virgate was composed of two bovates or oxgangs. 1886 I. Taylor The normal oxgangs in the Boldon Buke are 15 and 12 acres.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1688 |
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