Noun

1. the area of land that could be ploughed by an ox in a day; one eighth of a carucate.

Usage notes

• Land was normally ploughed with a team of eight oxen. An oxgang is roughly 13-15 acres, an eighth share of the land ploughed by an ox team in a day. The area differed by locality. In Scottish law it was about 13 acres - but this was also dependent on soil quality.