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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1538
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Umgang, n. Also: wmgange, un-, wngang. [ME and e.m.E. vmgang(e (a1300), ON umgangr, OE ymb(e)gang.] a. Circuit, circumference. b. An instance of going or passing round, a trip (here, to fishing grounds). —a. c1420 Wynt. iv 285.
That gret cyte … Four hundyr stadys and foure score It had in umgang all abowte [C. wmgange, W. vngang] 1456 Hay I 56/10.
[Carthage] had sexty thousand pas about the vmgang [pr. vingang] of the toune 1505 Crosraguel Chart.I 63.
Within the yettis and umgang and wallis of the said abbay —b. 1538 Aberd. B. Rec. MS XVI (Jam.).
For the parting of the said maisteris fysche thre tymmez on ane wngang, quhar thai suld be twa tymmez partit on ane haill day
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