bovate

bovate [boh-veyt] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. an old English unit of land area measurement equivalent to one-eighth of a carucate.

Origin of bovate 1680–90; Medieval Latin bovāta, equivalent to Latin bov- (stem of bōs) cow + -āta -ate1 Examples from the Web for bovate Historical Examples of bovate

In one place73Selkirkthere were 15 husband-lands, each containing a bovate.

The English Village Community

Frederic Seebohm

The eight oxen, as Mr Seebohm has shown, are the key to the whole system of the carucate and the bovate.

Feudal England — Historical Studies On The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries

J.H. Round