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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.; a bovate.
The carucate being the extent of land ploughed by one plough, with its team of eight oxen, an eighth of this was considered as the share of each ox of the team. Holders of less than a carucate united with their neighbours in the use of a co-operative plough, to the team of which each furnished as many oxen as he held oxgangs: see quot. 1425. (In quot. c 1375 strangely used to render L. jugerum juger.)
963in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1887) III. 346 On hillum tweᵹra oxena gang, and on Lundby tweᵹra oxena gang. 972–92Ibid. 370 An hide buton anes oxan gang. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvii. (Martha) 49 Of ane oxgange hale þe space [orig. per spatium jugeris], Þat twa hundreth fet in lynth has And twenty, and in bred alsa Sewyne schore of fute and na ma. c1425Wyntoun Cron. I. 400 Yhwmen, pewere Karl, or Knawe That wes of mycht an ox til hawe, He gert that man hawe part in pluche;..Swa than begowth, and eftyr lang Of land wes mesure, ane ox-gang. 14..Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 737/19 Hec bovaga, a noxgang. [c1475Pict. Voc. ibid. 796/7 Hec bovata, a hoxgangyn lond.] 1532Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 33 An oxgang of land and meadow. 1541(18 July) Acta Dom. Concilia et Sessiones (Register Ho. Edin.) XVI. lf. 51 b, Because ilk Oxengang [Skene (1609) oxengate] is estemyt ȝierly to twentie shillings in all dewities. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vii. 59 The Oxe⁓gang, or Oxengate..called Bouata terrae containes after the originall repute 13 acres. 1639in N. Riding Rec. IV. 121 According to an auncient rate of 18d an oxgange of lande. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.D.), An oxgang contains 10 acres in some places; in others sixteen, eighteen, twenty-four; and fifty in some parts of Bradford parish. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Oskin, an ox-gang. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 431 In the year 1272 there were fifty-six oxgangs or bovates in villanage in the township of Danby.
2. As a measure of length: ? a furlong.
1569T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. ii. viii. 52 The Riuer of Tygre..commonly aboue foure oxgangs broade. |