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cowgate
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Definition of cowgate
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: a right to pasture one cow on common land a cottager having two cowgates on the common
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Origin and Etymology of cowgate
back-formation from earlier kynegates, from kine (archaic plural of 1cow) + gates, plural of gate (way)
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