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What is an oxgang?

What is an oxgang? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, ⅛ hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres.
  2. (historical, Scotland) The similar Scottish concept, ⅛ of a ploughgate and notionally 12½ or 13 Scottish acres.
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The hide, the yardland, the oxgang existed not only in the geld-rolls, but in fact and on the ground.
The same price tag secured the top lamb in the Oxgang Farm pen of Ms McClanachen, Carrutherstown Road, Dumfries, with Ms Chalmers being the purchaser.
David Peter Gillies, 31, of Oxgang Close, Redcar, banned from driving for 16 months and fined pounds 200 and pounds 100 costs for drink-driving.
Nancy worked at the Saltburn Electric Laundry before becoming a warden for sheltered accommodation at Thrushwood Crescent, Marske, and Oxgang Close, Redcar.
Parents and pupils of Gartconner, Woodhill, St Joseph's, Lennoxtown, Oxgang, Merkland and Auchinairn primaries joined the protest.

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