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单词 ox-land
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ox-landn.

Brit. /ˈɒksˌland/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌlænd/
Forms: see ox n. and land n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., land n.1
Etymology: < ox n. + land n.1Attested in the 13th cent. as a place name (see C. Innes Reg. de Dunfermelyn (1842) 146).
1. Land suitable for ploughing with oxen; arable land. Obsolete. rare.In quot. a1387 glossing the name of Boeotia (see Bœotia n.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > ground as suitable for cultivation
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farmland1357
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 197 (MED) Beotia, oxe-lond, haþ þe name of bos, þat is an oxe.
1663 in S. L. Bailey Hist. Sketches Andover, Mass. (1880) 13 All those my two parcells of oxland or ploughing ground on the westerly side of ye Shawshin river.
2. = oxgang n. 1. Now historical.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > carucate and equivalents > the eighth part of ploughland
oxgang1343
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oxgate1585
ox-yard1897
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 97 Danegeld..was þre pans of eueriche bouata terræ, þat is, of eueriche oxeland.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 135 viij acres make an Oxelande..viij oxelandes make a ploweland..x plowlands make a knightes ffee.
1820 2nd Rep. Commissioners Weights & Meas. 24 Ox-Land, Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire: 8 customary acres.
1846 S. Bagshaw Hist., Gazetteer & Directory Derbyshire 42 The king [sc. Edward the Confessor] had likewise another church, in which six clerks held nine ox-lands free in Cornum and Ditton.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 592/1 The carucata of the Danelagh, the eight part of which was the bouata or ‘ox-land’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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