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Meanings of ox in English
Synonyms
Examples for "oxen"
Examples for "oxen"
1
Live stock and implements: four horses; four oxen; three cows and calves.
2
In turn oxen and horses were soon being replaced by inanimate power.
3
At best there were but few horses in the valley; mostly oxen.
4
To capture the oxen of Geryon was the tenth labor of Hercules.
5
There were more horses than oxen in use now in the fields.
1
In Aberdeenshire I consider that a large bullock ought to pay 25s.
2
Received from the Dooty of Doombila a small bullock and a sheep.
3
When they saw him with the bullock they threw up their hats.
4
Their arrival probably saved their lives, as the bullock drivers were unarmed.
5
It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night, said Mother Wolf.
Usage of ox in English
1
The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
2
The brains of an ox could concoct such ideas in nine days.
3
In the fast-fading light he focused it on the two ox carts.
4
In America every one works-eventhe horse, the ass and the ox.
5
I saw Iwan walking beside the lead ox, holding a long goad.
6
It tastes not unlike ox-tongue; and all of them liked it exceedingly.
7
I rushed to the ox, in the vain hope of overtaking them.
8
The flesh of the ox is eaten by the threshers at supper.
9
Then the tiger gave the rabbit the ox as he had promised.
10
The more warlike tribes were usually clothed in leopard or ox skins.
11
Jan left the rest of his musk-ox to the wolves and foxes.
12
And the king of the country hath alway an ox with him.
13
And the King has grown fat like the ox on summer grass.
14
Steel rails were crowding close behind the prairie schooners and the ox-bows.
15
Some cows have a masculine or ox expression; others are extremely feminine.
16
She gazed on him like an ox-eyed Juno; you know her way.
About this term
Ox through the time
Ox across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common