Crossword-Solution: BOVATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bovate | 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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| obsolete measure of land | 1 answer |
| BRITISH measure | 36 answers |
| ENGLISH measure | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with BOVATE (5)
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.
Every native and villein (which were such as we call husbandmen) paid each a cock and a hen, besides a small rent in money, for a toft and one bovate of land, held of the Priory of Thurgarton.
The half-bovate is found to consist of twelve strips west of Alvingham and sixteen strips east of the village; the several plots lie among similar plots owned by the priory and by other peasants.
According to a very common mode of reckoning, the hide contains four virgates, every virgate two bovates, and every bovate fifteen acres.
The bovate (oxgang) shows by its very name that not only the land is taken into account, but the oxen employed in its tillage, and the records explain the hide or carucate[472] to be the land of the eight-oxen plough, that is so much land as may be cultivated by a plough drawn by eight oxen.