Definitions for "Bovate"
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.
An eighth of a carucate. Sometimes reckoned at 15 acres; land ploughed by two oxen. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213) An ox-gang, or as much land as an ox could plough in a year; varying in amount from 10 to 18 acres according to the system of tillage. (Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400, 337) A measurement of land. One eighth of a carucate; notionally as much land as could be kept under plough by one ox. Also known as an oxgang or oxgate of land. (Warren, W.L. Henry II, 633)
an ancient land measure.