Bovate

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  • n. an oxgang
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An allotment of land in early English village communities, the holder of which was bound to furnish one ox to the plow-team; an oxgang.
  • Word Usage
    "The basis of the whole scheme of measurement in Domesday was the hide, usually of 120 acres, the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of 8 oxen in a year; a quarter of this was the virgate, an eighth the bovate, which would therefore supply one ox to the common team."