oxcart

[ oks-kahrt ]

noun
  1. an ox-drawn cart.

Origin of oxcart

1
First recorded in 1740–50; ox + cart

Words Nearby oxcart

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How to use oxcart in a sentence

  • The blazed trail gave way to the corduroy road, and the pack horse to the oxcart or the stage.

    The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
  • Without telephones we were not even in the horse and buggy days—we had returned to the oxcart.

  • All around me the farmers were rolling two-hundred-pound Emmentalers, bigger than oxcart wheels.

    The Complete Book of Cheese | Robert Carlton Brown
  • We see no more the oxcart lumbering, creaking laboriously along, higher and higher up the rugged mountain side.

    Blue Ridge Country | Jean Thomas
  • I should have walked back to the last hut, and an oxcart would have taken me in to the station.

    The Mystery of The Barranca | Herman Whitaker