ˈoutgang Now Sc. or north. dial.
[out- 7; OE. {uacu}tgang; cf. Du. uitgang, Ger. ausgang.]
1. A going out, departure, exit; the giving up of the occupancy or tenure of property.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter xviii. [xix.] 7 From ðæm hean heofene utgong his. a 1000 Life St. Guthlac ii. (1848) 14 Þurh sarlicne utgang þæs manfullan lifes. a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxx. 23 [xxxi. 22] In out-gang of thoghte mine. c 1320 Cast. Love 878 Þorw þe faste ȝat he con in teo, And at þe out-ȝong he lette faste beo. 1887 Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl., Out⁓ganging,..Outgang,..outgoing, removal; the act of giving up possession of burghal property. |
2. The way or passage out; an outlet, an exit; a road by which cattle went out to the pasture.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxii. 9 Geongas forðon to ut⁓ᵹeonge ðære weᵹara [c 975 Rushw. to utgengum weoᵹas]. a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxliii. [cxliv.] 16 Þair schepe brodefulle mightsomande In þar outgange. c 1450 Customs of Malton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 58 Fre entre and goyng owte to y⊇ more by a large way, the qwhyche is called y⊇ owtegang. 1513 Douglas æneis (Cr. Gl.), Ane narrow path baith outgang and entre. 1664–5 Act 16–17 Chas. II, c. 11 §2 The River of Welland from the Outgang at the East end of East Deeping. 1828 Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Out-gang, a road from a place. 1896 T. Blashill Sutton-in-Holderness 26 An ordinary outgang was a place where the cattle of a village assembled when they were to be driven out together to graze in common. |