ox gate

1) The OED has examples of this word as a Scottish equivalent of oxgang but that is not the meaning in Yorkshire where the ‘gate’ was a right for the ox to ‘go’ onto certain grazing lands. It was a right to pasturage.

1539 de firma unius clausi ... vocati Welborne Oxe-close in tenura diversorum tenentium ... qui quidem tenentes habent inter se pasturam pro vjxx bobus, Anglice vjxx oxegates ibidem.

dates 1539

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