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oxbow
[ oks-boh ]
/ ˈɒksˌboʊ /
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noun
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.
Physical Geography, Geology.
- a bow-shaped bend in a river, or the land embraced by it.
- Also called oxbow lake . a bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river.
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British Dictionary definitions for oxbow
oxbow
/ (ˈɒksˌbəʊ) /
noun
a U-shaped piece of wood fitted under and around the neck of a harnessed ox and attached to the yoke
Also called: oxbow lake, cutoff a small curved lake lying on the flood plain of a river and constituting the remnant of a former meander
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Scientific definitions for oxbow
oxbow
[ ŏks′bō′ ]
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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