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Outgate vs Outgang - What's the difference?

outgate | outgang |

As nouns the difference between outgate and outgang

is that outgate is an outlet; a passage outward while outgang is an exit or egress.

outgate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An outlet; a passage outward.
  • outgang

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An exit or egress.
  • * (seeCites)
  • 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.

    References

    * 1911, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia , "outgang". ----