Definition of Oxgang. Meaning of Oxgang. Synonyms of Oxgang

- An oxgang or bovate (Old English: oxangang; Danish: oxgang; Scottish Gaelic: damh-imir; Medieval Latin: bovāta) is an old land measurement formerly used...
- Oxgangs is a suburb in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Surrounding districts include Caiystane, Dreghorn, Redford, Fairmilehead, Colinton and Swanston...
- ("row village" or ribbon development, plural: Reihendörfer) or Hufendorf ("oxgang village") is the name used of a particular form of linear settlement in...
- Dessiatin Ground Hide Juchart Jugerum Katha Lessa or Lecha Marabba Morgen Oxgang Pari – a unit of area equal to about 1 hectare Quinaria Tathe Virgate Poncelet...
- Gorgie Greenhill Juniper Green Kingsknowe Longstone Merchiston Murrayburn Oxgangs Parkhead Polwarth Roseburn Saughton Shandon Sighthill Slateford Stenhouse...
- exactly) equal to 30 acres. It was equivalent to two of the Danelaw's oxgangs. The name derives from the Old English gyrd landes ("yard of land"), from...
- difficulty in turning the plough and the value of river front access. An oxgang was the amount of land tillable by one ox in a ploughing season. This could...
- difficulty in turning the plough and the value of river front access. An oxgang was the amount of land tillable by one ox in a ploughing season. This could...
- figure wildly variable. The Danelaw carucates were subdivided into eighths: oxgangs or bovates based on the area a yoked pair of oxen could till in a year...
- genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 and settled in Scotland. They lived in Oxgangs in Edinburgh, and moved to Dunfermline when he was age 15. Gatwa attended...