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An oxgang or bovate (oxangang; oxgang; damh-imir; bovāta) 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. Skene in Celtic Scotland says: An oxgang is also known as a bovate, from bovata, a medieval Latinisation of ...
• (n.) See Bovate.
Ox'gang` noun [ Ox + gang , noun , 1.] (O. Eng. Law) See Bovate .