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Oxbow   Listen
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Oxbow  n.  A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.






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"Oxbow" Quotes from Famous Books



... use that term; as the Valley of the Mississippi or the Valley of the Connecticut. If the word were admissible, it might be called most descriptively the land-bay of a river, at a certain distance between its source and mouth, such for instance as the German Flats on the Mohawk, or the Oxbow on the Connecticut, at Wethersfield, in Vermont, or the great onion-growing flat on the same river at Wethersfield in Connecticut. These straths are numerous in Scotland, and constitute the great productive centres of the mountain sections. They are generally cultivated to ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt



Words linked to "Oxbow" :   earth, solid ground, framework, meander, terra firma, dry land, oxbow lake



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