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oxcart

[ oks-kahrt ]

/ ˈɒksˌkɑrt /

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noun

an ox-drawn cart.

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Origin of oxcart

First recorded in 1740–50; ox + cart

Words nearby oxcart

oxbow, oxbow chest, oxbow front, oxbow lake, Oxbridge, oxcart, oxen, Oxenstierna, oxeye, ox-eyed, oxeye daisy

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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.
Greener Than You Think|Ward Moore
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