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noun
1.
a U-shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
2.
Physical Geography, Geology.
a.
a bow-shaped bend in a river, or the land embraced by it.
b.
Also called oxbow lake. a bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river.
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Oxbow
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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oxbow  (ŏks'bō') Pronunciation Key
A sharp, U-shaped bend in a river. The bend is so sharp that only a narrow neck of land is left between the two parts of the river. |
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