• (n.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
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Bo'vate noun [ Late Latin
bovata , from
bos ,
bovis , ox.]
(O.Eng.Law.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
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same as yardland.
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A bovate (oxgang) was an early English measure of land equal to half a virgate and one-eight of a carucate. It was deemed to be the extent that an ox could plough in one day and varied from 8 to 24 acres.
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bovate An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
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an old English unit of land area measurement equivalent to one-eighth of a carucate.
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