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outgang
outgang
English
Noun
outgang (plural outgangs)
- An exit or egress.
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:outgang.
- Is there any other outgang in this here building?
- The act of giving up occupancy of property.
- An outgate; a cattle-gate.
- 1841, The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness:
- Sit William Saunders, priest, gave as follows:—for the repair of the church windows, bridges for a church road, bell ropes, &c., church balke, [...] dam, and dam bridge, and outgang, [...] outgang between White Hall Close and Mill Hill Close [...]
- 1896, Thomas Blashill, Sutton-in-Holderness: The manor, the berewic, and the village community:
- An ordinary outgang was a place where the cattle of a village assembled, when they were to be driven out together to ... This outgang seems to have run between the old enclosed lands and the southern part of the West Carr or Marsh [...]
- 1902, Doncaster (England), A calendar to the records of the borough of Doncaster:
- A "bounder" of certain land belonging to the corporation of Doncaster in the occupation of John Lambe, minister of Rossington viz. a laithe or barn in the outgang next the town street, the upper outgang and the nether outgang, and land in the Church field, the Ing field and the Park field.
- 1841, The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness:
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References
- 1911, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia, "outgang".
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English ūtgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *ūt + *gangaz (“exit”). Cognate with Old High German ūzgang (“exit”) (German Ausgang). More at out, gang.
Noun
outgang (plural outgangs)
- An exit
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Scots
Etymology
From Middle English outgang, from Old English ūtgang (“an outgoing, exit”). Cognate with Dutch uitgang (“exit”), German Ausgang (“exit”).
Noun
outgang (plural outgangs)