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Synonyms for oxen

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ok-suh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒk sən

Top 10 synonyms for oxen
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Définition of oxen

Origin :
  • plural of ox, it is the only true continuous survival in Modern English of the Old English weak plural. OED reports oxes occurs 14c.-16c., "but has not survived."
  • As in lummox : noun oaf
  • As in oaf : noun person who is clumsy, stupid
  • As in bovine : noun member of genus bos
  • As in cattle : noun bovine animals
  • As in meathead : noun dummy
Example sentences :
  • We'd have oxen roasted whole, an' honey—an'—but that's as fur as I can git.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Once it was so huge that three hundred yoke of oxen could hardly move it.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • They also held the oxen's yokes, so that nobody or anything could rattle, or make any noise.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • They held about five acres, but provided no oxen for the manorial plough-team.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • With these were also granted 6,000 oxen accustomed to the plough, as well as supplies of seeds, &c.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • We were told he should come this day in a wagon drawn by oxen, and here he is!
  • Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd
  • Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable.
  • Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond

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