oxwork

Noun

oxwork (uncountable)

1. The work of an ox.
   • Then feed thy oxen in the house with hay; / Which he that wants with ease enough will say, / "Let me, alike, thy wain and oxen use." / Which 'tis as easy for thee to refuse, / And say thy oxword then importunes much.1858, “Second Books of the Georgics of Hesiod”, in George Chapman, transl., Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams, London: John Russell Smith, page 181
   • The diary carefully records the soil of the different localities passed under homely but intelligible farm terms. It was "emplastado, prieta or migajon," heavy, dark or friable, and the amount of water supply was carefully estimated, as a Mallorca farmer would count it by inches, yards or "oxwork."1904, Bryan J[ames] Clinch, California and Its Missions: Their History to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, volume II, San Francisco, C.A.: The Whitaker & Ray Company, page 31