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bockland

bockland is the obsolete form of bookland.

Meaning of bookland

Noun

bookland (plural booklands)

  1. (historical) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and fines. It was held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.

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Forms of bockland

pluralbocklands

Questions about bockland

What is bockland the obsolete form of?
Bockland is the obsolete form of bookland.

Words near bockland in the dictionary

  1. bockey
  2. bockeys
  3. Bockhampton
  4. bocking
  5. bockings
  6. bockland
  7. bocklands
  8. Bockle
  9. Bockles
  10. Bockman
  11. Bockmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bockland (page history and authors); bookland (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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