单词 | oxgate |
释义 | oxgaten. Chiefly Scottish. Now historical. = oxgang n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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 ox-landa1387 oxgate1585 ox-yard1897 1585 in E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. (1872) 136 Thirteen acres extendis and sall extend to ane oxgait of land, and four oxgait extendis and sall extend to ane pund land of auld extent. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 5 An oxgange or oxgate of land is as much as an ox can till. 1726 in J. G. Michie Rec. Invercauld (1901) 136 Extending together to eight Oxgates, or half a Davoch of Land, with Houses, Biggings [etc.]. 1924 Econ. Jrnl. 34 83 The oxgates were each supposed to furnish an ox for the common plough. 1943 ELH 10 289 The customary unit of land was called a ‘plough-gate’, and was worked in common by eight tenants, each owning an ‘ox-gate’. 1999 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. 29 The King's Charter to the monks of Holyrood granted them ‘that chapel of Liberton, with two oxgates of land, with all the tithes and rights etc’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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