daugh

English

Etymology

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

Noun

daugh (plural daughs)

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

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