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Bockland or Bookland

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Land severed from the folcland, and converted into a private estate of perpetual inheritance by a short and simple deed or book.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Boat
Boatswain
Boaz and Jachin
Bob
Bobadil
Bobbery
Bobbish
Bobbit
Bobby
Boccus (King)
Bockland or Bookland
Bod
Boden-See
Bodies
Bodkin
Bodkin
Bodkin
Bodle
Bodleian Library (Oxford)
Body. (Anglo-Saxon, bodig.)
Body and Soul