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oxdrawn

oxdrawn adjective: drawn or pulled by oxen.

oxdrawn: drawn or pulled by oxen
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Adjective

oxdrawn (not comparable)

  1. Drawn or pulled by oxen.
    • About 1500 B.C., it was overrun by tribesmen who had the military advantage of possessing iron weapons and horsedrawn chariots as against the copper weapons and oxdrawn carts of the natives.1975, L[eften] S[tavros] Stavrianos, The World to 1500: A Global History, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, pages 80–81
    • Historically earlier forms of writing—such as the boustrophedon, or the way the oxdrawn plow moves—would have yielded a simpler line of writing for cutting, semiotically continuous and more readily materially isolated.2010, Julian Warner, Human Information Retrieval, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 100

Examples of oxdrawn in a sentence

  • Cultures with furtive heels / return to your scholar's view, / whole biographies / lost on oxdrawn wheels;2015, Elise Partridge, “The Finder”, in The Exiles' Gallery, Toronto, O.N.: House of Anansi Press, →ISBN, page 81:
  • After digging up the anthills, they crush the soil, sift it and then cart it to their fields by oxdrawn carts or wheel barrows.2019 December 6, Elliott Siamonga, “Input prices derail cropping season preparations”, in The Chronicle, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Forms of oxdrawn

alternative formox-drawn

Origin of oxdrawn

Compound of ox + drawn.

Questions about oxdrawn

What does oxdrawn mean?
Oxdrawn means drawn or pulled by oxen.
How do you use oxdrawn in a sentence?
Cultures with furtive heels / return to your scholar's view, / whole biographies / lost on oxdrawn wheels;
What part of speech is oxdrawn?
Oxdrawn is an adjective.

Words near oxdrawn in the dictionary

  1. Oxbridgy
  2. oxcarbazepine
  3. oxcart
  4. oxcarts
  5. oxdralazine
  6. oxdrawn
  7. oxdriver
  8. oxdrivers
  9. oxea
  10. oxeae
  11. oxeas

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