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Oxingang, n. Also: hoxin-, oxen-, oxane- and -gange, -gan(e. [OE. oxena-gang, oxan-gang: cf. Oxgang and Oxingate.] = Oxgang n.Commonly oxingang of land, chiefly uninfl. in plur. following a cardinal number, and, in the majority of instances, mentioned in multiples of 2; also quasi-comb. in oxingang-land. Also oxingang of (a specified farm). Oxingang-tilth. = Oxin-tilth n.(1) 1481 (1488) Reg. Great S. 383/1.
Terras 9 bovatarum terrarum de Rait, vulgariter nuncupatas nyne oxingane of land 1481 Soc. Ant. Chart. (Reg. H.) No. 14.
With a toft and a croft and twa oxane gange of the landis and town of the Harlaw 1512 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I. 62.
Twa hoxin gang terrarum de Stobo 1514 Reg. Cupar A. I. 292. 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 541/2.
All males of the tua parte of the foure oxingang of land … lyand in Estir Bynnyng 1533 Bell. Livy I. 281/30. 1539 Exch. R. XVII. 682.
Drummaben, lij oxingang 1542 Reg. Cupar A. II. 203. 1548 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. XXXIX. 50.
For the nather oxingang ij s. 1549 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 434. Ib. 438. 1550 Prot. Bk. Sir J. Cristisone 100.
His auht oxingang tack of Balhagarte 1552 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. f. 238 b in Fife Sheriff Ct. 395.
Eu ery xvj oxingang of land to be stentit to xl land of auld extent 1565–6 Crim. Trials I. i. * 471.
That the said Thomas is ane pure fermorare, havand onlye aucht oxingang of land of Bengour 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 85. 1570 Fam. Rose 256. 1571 Reg. Privy S. VI. 219.
[Paying yearly] for ilk oxingang … of Bonetoun … twenty thre schillingis ii d. 1572 Rec. Kinloss Mon. 91. 1573–4 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 194.
Four oxingang of the intoun of the landis of Carnegall c1575 Balfour Pract. 199.
Gif the land … extendis to the aucht part of ane dawach of land, viz. to four oxen-gang or to mair Ib. 441.
That ane pleuch sould contene viij oxen-gang; the oxen-gang sould contene xij aikeris, the aiker sould contene iiij rudis 1579 Reg. Privy C. III. 226. 1587 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 3 June.
Oxin gan 1588 Ib. 2 Nov.
Oxin gane 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 142. 1588 Digest Justiciary Proc. L. 63.
Becaus he hes naither land nor heritage exceiding ane oxingang of land 1613 Stirlings of Keir 481. 1668 Dunkeld Presb. I. 301.
John Bisset … had sasine … of three oxengang of the lands of Nether Kincairdneyplur. 1535 Renfrew Arch. Coll. I. 170.
Thai sax oxingangis of his landis in Ratho(2) 1559 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 237.
Of all and haill the sex oxingang landis of Burroleris [sic in pr.] quhilk … the said Androw … occupiis togidder witht the new landis callit the Corbe Craig 1587 Banff Field C. (1901) 29.(3) 1549 Prot. Bk. R. Lumsdane MS. 12.
To four oxin gang tyltht of the landis off Dilforky