Meaning

An exit or egress..

Definitions by Sense

1. An exit or egress.
2. The act of giving up occupancy of property.
3. An outgate; a cattle-gate.

Example Sentences

For quotations using this term, see Citations:outgang.

Is there any other outgang in this here building?

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 …

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.

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 [...]

Word Forms

• outgangs

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Use outgang when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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