oxcart
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oxcart
Example Sentences
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However, the oxcart today is on the brink of disappearance with tractors and motorized rickshaws increasingly replacing the older technology.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024
Nowadays, when oxcart and sailing ship no longer govern governing, Sacramento is still at least symbolically remote from Californians, even though they send their own legislators there.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Yet who will step up to the challenge and act the Alexander to this pop-cultural oxcart?
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2014
Flynn concludes that it is, and the caravan continues slowly through the bush, negotiating trails usually traversed by oxcart.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2014
He kept to the ditch along the river road so that he could duck out of sight whenever a rare oxcart came rumbling by.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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