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Oxgang - Wikipedia
An oxgang was the amount of land tillable by one ox in a ploughing season. This could vary from village to village, but was typically around 15 acres.
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oxgang - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (historical) The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, 1⁄8 hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres. · (historical, Scotland) The similar ...
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OXGANG Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
oxgang from Middle English, from Old English oxan gang, from oxan, genitive of oxa ox + gang way; oxgate from ox + gate (way); from its being measured by the ...
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oxgang
oxgang Obs. exc. Hist. Chiefly northern. (ˈɒksgæŋ) Also 7–8 dial. osken, -in; ox-going. [f. ox + gang n.1 3. In OE. two words with oxan gen. sing. or oxena gen. pl.] 1. The eighth part of the carucate or plough-land varying from 10 to 18 acres, or more widely, according to the system of tillage, etc...
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DOST :: oxgang - Dictionaries of the Scots Language
An oxgang or bovate; a measure of land equal to one eighth of a ploughgate and reckoned as (more or less) equivalent to 13 acres.
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What is oxgang? Simple Definition & Meaning - LSD.Law
An oxgang is a historical unit of land measurement that refers to the amount of land that an ox can plow in one year, typically ranging from 12 to 15 acres.
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Middle English Dictionary Entry - University of Michigan
1. (a) A measure of land equivalent to that which can be plowed by an ox in a season, varying in size from about 8 to 30 acres; oxgang(en long ...
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OXGANG definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
An old measure of farmland.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Oxgang Facts for Kids
An oxgang or bovate was an old way to measure land. People used it in Scotland and England a long time ago, even back in the 1500s. Sometimes, ...
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What is the unit called an oxgang? - Sizes
Footnote, page 91: “'Oxgang' is the term used in northern England for the tenurial units which formed the basis of landownership. Within any one ...
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Reihendorf
The Reihendorf ("row village" or ribbon development, plural: Reihendörfer) or Hufendorf ("oxgang village") is the name used of a particular form of linear
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oxgate
† ˈoxgate Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6–7 oxengate. [f. ox + gate n.2, gait n.1] A measure of land; the same as the oxgang (for which this name appears to have been substituted after 1550).1585 Decree of Scotch Exchequer in E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. (1872) 136 Thirteen acres extendis and sall extend to a...
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Obsolete Scottish units of measurement
In the East Highlands:
Rood
Scottish acre = 4 roods
Oxgang (Damh-imir) = the area an ox could plow
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oxskin
† oxskin Obs. In 7 oxe skinne. App. a perversion of the dial. oskin oxgang, facilitated by popular association of hide n.1 and n.21610 Hopton Bac. Geodæt. i. ii. 21 Foure akers (saith he) make a yard of land, fiue yards of land contain a hide..in Yorkeshire and other countries they call a hide an Ox...
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