daugh

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daugh

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

noun daughs

historical An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres.
Similar: davoch, davach, arachor

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@misc{daugh_2026,
  title = {daugh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/daugh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}