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Bovate

An oxgang or as much land as an ox can plow in a year an ancient measure of land of indefinite

Sullery

Sullery, a plough-land, Co. Litt. 5 a.

Doles, or Dools

or Dools, slips of pasture left between the furrows of ploughed land.

Arable land

Dictionary 'arable land' is 'land which is capable of being ploughed or fit for village'. In the context of s. 17(1)

Common

commonable beasts, viz., horses, kine, or sheep, such as either plough or manure the arable land granted. (b) Appurtenant, which arises

Gavelkind

being, 'The father to the bough, the son to the plough,' although they were for treason or want of heirs (see … 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service

Hide of Land

Hide of Land, such a space as might be ploughed with one plough, or as much as would maintain a

Plough-silver

Plough-silver, money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service … some tenants, in lieu of service to plough the lord's lands.

Fallow-land

Fallow-land, land ploughed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time after

Day-were of land

diurnalis, diuturna, Lat.], as much arable land as would be ploughed up in one day's work.

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