Definitions for Oxen
ˈɒk sənox·en

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1. cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurusnoun

   domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

   "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

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1. oxennoun

   Plural form of ox.

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1. oxen

   An ox (PL: oxen, ), also known as a bullock (in BrE, AusE, and IndE), is a male bovine trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas. Oxen are used for plowing, for transport (pulling carts, hauling wagons and even riding), for threshing grain by trampling, and for powering machines that grind grain or supply irrigation among other purposes. Oxen may be also used to skid logs in forests, particularly in low-impact, select-cut logging. Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might require just one pair, while for heavier work, further pairs would be added as necessary. A team used for a heavy load over difficult ground might exceed nine or ten pairs.

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1. oxen

   Oxen are large and powerful domesticated bovine animals typically used for pulling heavy loads or for plowing fields. Usually, an ox is an adult male that has been castrated, but the term can be used for cows and bulls as well. They are often yoked together in pairs for work.

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1. exon

How to pronounce Oxen?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Oxen in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Oxen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Oxen in a Sentence

1. Burmese Proverb:

   The worth of a horse is known by its speed, the value of oxen by their carrying power, the worth of a cow by its milk-giving capacity, and that of a wise man by his speech.

2. William Butler Yeats:

   The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

3. Dave Michelson:

   They knew they could n’t save the building, so the place was packed, of course, on a Saturday night with cowboys, miners, ladies of the night, and they actually carried the bar out, dragged the bar out across the street, they got some oxen up front and actually dragged it across the street and kept on serving while the Palace was burning to the ground.

4. Horace:

   He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Oxen
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oxen
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxen
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