oxgangとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 oxegang, from 古期英語 oxangang (“⁄₈ hide or ploughland”), equivalent to ox +‎ gang.

名詞

oxgang (plural oxgangs)

1. (historical) The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, ⁄₈ hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres.
   • 1909, “Appendix II: Rishworth of Coley”, in William Brown, editor, Record Series‎, volume 39: For the Year 1907: Yorkshire Deeds, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, page 226:

     1417. Henry Rishworth formerly held two oxgangs in Hipperholme, Osbarn rode, lands in Coley, etc. His nephew Henry, son of Nicholas de Rishworth, next heir, paid 10s heriot.
     1418. John, son and heir of Henry de Rishworth, herioted a cottage and a royd in the Hey in Hipperholme.

2. (historical, Scotland) The similar Scottish concept, ⁄₈ of a ploughgate and notionally 12+⁄₂ or 13 Scottish acres.

使用する際の注意点

The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed to the Saxon and Norman kings and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year, meaning the oxgang was expected to produce 30 pence (1+⁄₂ Tower ounces of sterling silver).

同意語

• bovate, oxgate, oxengate

上位語

• (800 oxgangs) See hundred
• (8 oxgangs) See carucate
• (Scottish, 4 oxgangs) See ochdamh
• (2 oxgangs) See virgate

下位語

• (⁄₂ oxgang) See nook
• (⁄₄ oxgang) See fardel
• (various & for further subdivisions) See acre

参照

• Worchester, Joseph. A Dictionary of the English Language. Boston, 1881.