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An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres.

Noun

  1. An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic dabhach (“vat, large unit of land”); the "land unit" sense may reflect substrate influence on Gaelic from Pictish.

Forms

daughs

Synonyms

davoch davach arachor

Hyponyms

ploughgate ochdamh oxgang acre

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