Crossword-Solution: OXGANG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oxgang | n. | See Bovate. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with OXGANG (5)
OXGANG, oks'gang, _n._ as much land as can be tilled by the use of an ox (averaging about 15 acres)--called also OX'LAND or OX'GATE.
The bovate (oxgang) shows by its very name that not only the land is taken into account, but the oxen employed in its tillage, and the records explain the hide or carucate[472] to be the land of the eight-oxen plough, that is so much land as may be cultivated by a plough drawn by eight oxen.
The hide, the yardland, the oxgang existed not only in the geld-rolls, but in fact and on the ground.
Thus the possible gradations are not so many or so gentle as in our own time, but are in the main the half plough-land, the virgate, and the oxgang.
Footnote 47: ‘Item, payde to Hew Watson, for a bawdrike to the first belle, x_d._’ (1546.) (Churchwardens’ Accounts at Ludlow, Camden Soc.) ‘Item, for markynge of Hew Davis’ pew, xii_d._’ (1552.) (do.) Footnote 48: ‘Hugyn held of the same Earl an oxgang of land.’ (De Lacy Inquisit., Cheth.