Look up: Oxgang

1. Oxgang
   Ox'gang` noun [ Ox + gang , noun , 1.] (O. Eng. Law) See Bovate .
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/61
   
   
2. Oxgang
   • (n.) See Bovate.
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3. oxgang
   an old English unit of land area equal to 1/8 hide or roughly 15 acres (6 hectares). The hide was considered the area a farmer could plow with a team of 8 oxen, so an oxgang was the area he could plow with a single ox. The unit was also called the bovate, from the Latin word bos for an ox or cow.
   Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictO.
   
   
4. Oxgang
   An `oxgang` or `bovate` (; ; ; ) is an old land measurement formerly used in Scotland and England. It averaged around 20 English acres, but was based on land fertility and cultivation, and so could be as low as 15. : "in the eastern district there is a uniform system of land denomination consis...
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