Also 7 bovatt, 8 boviat. [ad. med.L. bovāta, f. bōs, bov-is an ox: cf. -ATE1.] An oxgang, or as much land as one ox could plow in a year; one-eighth of the carucate or plowland; varying in amount from 10 to 18 acres according to the system of tillage, etc.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. 59. Bovatt of Land is as much as 15 Acres, in some places 20 Acres.
1723. H. Rowlands, Mona Antiqua (1766), 122. Gavels, measured out by Boviats and Carucats.
1839. Stonehouse, Axholme, 345. William, the son of Roger de Beltoft, is returned as having two parts of one bovate of land.
1883. Seebohm, Eng. Vill. 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.]
