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View synonyms for oxen

oxen

[ok-suhn]

noun

  1. a plural of ox.



oxen

/ ˈɒksən /

noun

  1. the plural of ox

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In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.

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Then hundreds more workers arrived, some of them with ropes, animal fat, water, and oxen.

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Roz crested a small ridge and surprised a herd of musk oxen.

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Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

When that stopped paying out, he used his oxen to feed the town of Bodie.

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