English Explanatory Dictionary

daugh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

daugh daughs

Etymology

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

Synonyms

davoch davach arachor
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