oxen

Examples

• All

• No, they used oxen because they could pull these wagons through the water in the sand and whatnot.

• Food was getting scarce; the oxen could not get enough grass to eat and were getting weak.

  Fiction book (1993)

• We traveled beyond the roads, you know, where oxen had to pull us out.

• Initially, plows with teams of six or eight oxen were used to open new land.

  Academic text (1994)

• Tomorrow, I'll bring my oxen and help plow your field.

  The Good Earth (1937)

• The mud is frozen deep enough so oxen can pull a wagon over it.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The grays were worth at least $500, and the oxen could be bought for $125 a pair.

  Fiction book (1997)

• They can grow wheat with plows, oxen, and of course, land.

• Early plows, drawn by two oxen, did not normally turn the sod but merely scratched it.

  Academic text (1999)

• In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing.

Synonyms

C

cattle

vsoxen

335 1.0

Large farm animals like cows and bulls that farmers keep for milk, meat, or work

focuses more on animals used mainly for pulling or heavy work

K

kine

vsoxen

• Archaic

1 9.9

An old word for a group of cows or cattle

is the modern, common word rather than an old-fashioned term

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Etymology