Full name: bovate
Plural form: bovates
Category type: area
Scale factor: 60000
The SI derived unit for area is the square meter.
1 square meter is equal to 1.66666666667E-5 bovate.
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A bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed in one day by one eighth of a plough team with eight oxen, or in other words the measure of land representing one eighth of a carucate. The term is used in the Domesday Book for places under the Danelaw. The word is derived from the Latin word bo, meaning ox.
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