Etymology

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Today it means: An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic dabhach
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  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromdabhach“vat, large unit of land”
  2. English todaydaugh

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

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