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| 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.
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n.
ox'bow' adj. |
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| oxbow | |
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| 1. | the land inside an oxbow bend in a river |
| 2. | a U-shaped curve in a stream |
| 3. | a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox |
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| oxbow
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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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Oxbow, ME Zip code(s): 04764
Oxbow, ND (city, FIPS 60480) Location: 46.67066 N, 96.80160 W
Population (1990): 100 (40 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Oxbow
Ox"bow`\, n. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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