oxbown.

Brit.

/ˈɒksbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɑksˌboʊ/

Forms: see ox n. and bow n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., bow n.¹

Etymology: < ox n. + bow n.¹ Compare post-classical Latin oxebowum, oxboum (1316, 1368 respectively in British sources).Compare also Scots regional oxen-bow (also owsen bow ), attested from the 15th cent. onwards in sense 1 ( < oxen , plural of ox n. + bow n.¹; now chiefly in north-eastern dialects).

1. A bow-shaped piece of wood forming a collar for a yoked ox, with the upper ends fastened to the yoke. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar

barghama1300

hambargh13..

oxbowa1325

collarc1440

horse-collarc1440

neck-collar1549

brecham?1553

gorget1629

check-collar1875

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > yoke > part of

yoke boweOE

oxbowa1325

yoke-band1585

yoke thong1585

beele1616

headpiece1763

yoke-skey1817

jukskei1822

yoke strap1833

yoke tree1844

skey1850

bow-pin1856

bow-key1859

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 169 (MED) Les arsons [glossed] oxe-bowes [v.rr. yocbowen, yokis].

1432 Bailiff's Acct., Grantchester in Middle Eng. Dict. at Oxe Item, In Oxe bowys bowt for youre plowys, ij d.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 90^v Oxbowe: Arquillus, Columbar.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Oxebowe that gothe about his necke, collier de beuf.

?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. iiii It is necessary for hym, to lerne to make his yokes, oxe bowes, stoles, and all maner of ploughe gere.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 With oxbowes & oxiokes, & other things moe: for oxteme & horseteme, in plough for to goe.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 268 (Gloss.) Bow, an Ox-bow or Yoak.

1735 J. Hempstead Diary 12 Feb. (1901) 291 I was at home al day making ox Bows.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing xxvi. 106 A farmer ort to stick to his ox bows and goard sticks.

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. iii. 26 An extra quantity of ox bows, axle-trees..in case of accidents or breakage.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Owce-bow, an ox-collar; the wooden one for the neck when the animal is yoked.

1918 E. Hough Passing of Frontier vi, in Last Frontier ii. 105 Some one..bethought himself of making snowshoes out of the oxbows and the hides of the slaughtered oxen.

1998 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 23 Nov. 1 c He hung the ox bows he had in stock over his neck, bundled his lash staffs under his arm and, setting fire to the house, he left for Connecticut.

2. Originally U.S.

a. A pronounced meander or horseshoe-shaped loop in a river; the land included within such a loop. Also: a similarly shaped loop in a subterranean passage.

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend > semicircular bend

horseshoe1795

oxbow1797

1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 148 In this town [sc. Newbury, Vermont] are those extensive intervales known by the name of the great Ox-Bow, which form the River assumes in its course at this place.

1845 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Hist. Coll. State N.Y. 201 Oxbow, on the Oxbow of the Oswegatchie river.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 284 The Connecticut..wantons in huge luxurious oxbows about the fair Northampton meadows.

1963 Northern Pennine Club Jrnl. Summer We concluded that the whole shaft was an oxbow, with the top end above the fill, the bottom end below.

1996 L. Erdrich Tales of Burning Love 288 It was beautiful land... An oxbow of the river ran along the eastern corner.

b. = oxbow lake n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types

pene-lake1668

salina1697

slough1714

salt lake1763

bayou1766

lagoon1769

cut-off1773

prairie1820

maar1826

boating lake1834

serpentine1837

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

stream-lake1867

shott1878

crater-lake1879

playa1885

oxbow lake1887

kettle-hole lake1902

mortlake1902

oxbow1902

seepage lake1934

paternoster lake1942

soda pan1976

1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. ix. 303 The loop often remains as a dead river-channel or ‘Mortlake’. Such loop-lakes are known in America by the special name of ‘Ox-bows’.

1957 L. Eiseley Immense Journey 22 Fishes of this type who get themselves immured in oxygenless ponds or in cut-off oxbows buried in winter drifts.

1985 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 7 July Each spring the White [River] floods its bottomlands, refilling and restocking the oxbows.

3. = oxbow stirrup n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup

stirrupc1000

steel bowc1275

iron1662

saddle iron1772

shovel-stirrup1883

oxbow stirrup1907

oxbow1942

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §915/5 Ox bows,..wide old-fashioned wooden stirrups.

2002 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 69 The rider puts his feet in his oxbows, holds his markout and calls for the gate.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, chiefly with reference to shape.

oxbow bend n.

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1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 12 The high plain here trends to the west, and turns the course of the Connecticut so that it makes an ox-bow bend.

1993 Boston Globe (Nexis) 2 Apr. 85 The museum stands..high on a hill with a long view northward across an ox-bow bend of the Housatonic River.

C2.

oxbow key n. now rare a key for fastening the end of an oxbow (sense 1).

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar > part of

hame13..

tee1494

bearing gear1616

pole piece1619

pole chain1725

afterwale1833

oxbow key1882

barge1908

1882 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 480 Ox-bow keys, 2 inch.

a1918 J. Bratt Trails of Yesterday (1921) xiii. 52 In the morning I was set to work..making ox-bow keys and fitting bows to yokes.

oxbow lake n. originally U.S. a curved lake of standing water formed from an oxbow (sense 2a) when the main stream of the river cuts across the narrow neck of land and the resulting change in flow causes the adjacent parts of the curve to become silted up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types

pene-lake1668

salina1697

slough1714

salt lake1763

bayou1766

lagoon1769

cut-off1773

prairie1820

maar1826

boating lake1834

serpentine1837

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

stream-lake1867

shott1878

crater-lake1879

playa1885

oxbow lake1887

kettle-hole lake1902

mortlake1902

oxbow1902

seepage lake1934

paternoster lake1942

soda pan1976

1843 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes in Forest & Prairie I. 180 These wanderers had encamped upon the sandbeach of Tseka, about a gunshot from the cove where the inlet of Oxbow Lake flows from it into the swamp that lies between them.]

1887 Science 16 Sept. 142/1 The third [heading] contained the greatest number of varieties, such as lakes held by lava, ice, and drift barriers, delta and ox-bow lakes, and some others.

1992 T. Pow In Palace of Serpents (BNC) 66 The forest opened at Laguna Chica, a perfect oxbow lake.

oxbow stirrup n. a stirrup having the shape of an oxbow.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup

stirrupc1000

steel bowc1275

iron1662

saddle iron1772

shovel-stirrup1883

oxbow stirrup1907

oxbow1942

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. i. 5 Uncle Jim sat placidly on his white horse, his thin knees bent to the ox-bow stirrups, smoking.

1981 R. H. Beatie Saddles 361/2 Skeleton-rigged saddle, an early saddle consisting of only a rawhide-covered tree, rawhide rigging for the rigging ring, and rawhide stirrup leathers tied to the bars.., usually with wide oxbow stirrups.

C3. attributive. Cabinetmaking. Designating a piece of furniture partially composed of two convex sections and a central concave section, as oxbow chest, oxbow front, etc.

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1929 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. ii. 6/3 An eighteenth century Pennsylvania painted comb-back Windsor armchair with horseshoe spindle back pierced by seven spindles forming a high comb with ox-bow crowing rail.

1981 Washington Post 8 Feb. l3/6 Among the items to be sold will be..a Massachusetts Chippendale mahogany oxbow desk.

1986 Time (Nexis) 8 Sept. 15 He can keep the bidding on this early American cherry oxbow chest spinning in the air all morning.

2003 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 15 Feb. a6 An American Queen Anne- or Chippendale-style slant-top desk with an oxbow front.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oxbow
释义	oxbown. Brit. /ˈɒksbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌboʊ/ Forms: see ox n. and bow n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., bow n.¹ Etymology: < ox n. + bow n.¹ Compare post-classical Latin oxebowum, oxboum (1316, 1368 respectively in British sources).Compare also Scots regional oxen-bow (also owsen bow ), attested from the 15th cent. onwards in sense 1 ( < oxen , plural of ox n. + bow n.¹; now chiefly in north-eastern dialects). 1. A bow-shaped piece of wood forming a collar for a yoked ox, with the upper ends fastened to the yoke. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar barghama1300 hambargh13.. oxbowa1325 collarc1440 horse-collarc1440 neck-collar1549 brecham?1553 gorget1629 check-collar1875 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > yoke > part of yoke boweOE oxbowa1325 yoke-band1585 yoke thong1585 beele1616 headpiece1763 yoke-skey1817 jukskei1822 yoke strap1833 yoke tree1844 skey1850 bow-pin1856 bow-key1859 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 169 (MED) Les arsons [glossed] oxe-bowes [v.rr. yocbowen, yokis]. 1432 Bailiff's Acct., Grantchester in Middle Eng. Dict. at Oxe Item, In Oxe bowys bowt for youre plowys, ij d. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 90^v Oxbowe: Arquillus, Columbar. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Oxebowe that gothe about his necke, collier de beuf. ?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. iiii It is necessary for hym, to lerne to make his yokes, oxe bowes, stoles, and all maner of ploughe gere. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 With oxbowes & oxiokes, & other things moe: for oxteme & horseteme, in plough for to goe. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 268 (Gloss.) Bow, an Ox-bow or Yoak. 1735 J. Hempstead Diary 12 Feb. (1901) 291 I was at home al day making ox Bows. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing xxvi. 106 A farmer ort to stick to his ox bows and goard sticks. 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. iii. 26 An extra quantity of ox bows, axle-trees..in case of accidents or breakage. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Owce-bow, an ox-collar; the wooden one for the neck when the animal is yoked. 1918 E. Hough Passing of Frontier vi, in Last Frontier ii. 105 Some one..bethought himself of making snowshoes out of the oxbows and the hides of the slaughtered oxen. 1998 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 23 Nov. 1 c He hung the ox bows he had in stock over his neck, bundled his lash staffs under his arm and, setting fire to the house, he left for Connecticut. 2. Originally U.S. a. A pronounced meander or horseshoe-shaped loop in a river; the land included within such a loop. Also: a similarly shaped loop in a subterranean passage. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend > semicircular bend horseshoe1795 oxbow1797 1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 148 In this town [sc. Newbury, Vermont] are those extensive intervales known by the name of the great Ox-Bow, which form the River assumes in its course at this place. 1845 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Hist. Coll. State N.Y. 201 Oxbow, on the Oxbow of the Oswegatchie river. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 284 The Connecticut..wantons in huge luxurious oxbows about the fair Northampton meadows. 1963 Northern Pennine Club Jrnl. Summer We concluded that the whole shaft was an oxbow, with the top end above the fill, the bottom end below. 1996 L. Erdrich Tales of Burning Love 288 It was beautiful land... An oxbow of the river ran along the eastern corner. b. = oxbow lake n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. ix. 303 The loop often remains as a dead river-channel or ‘Mortlake’. Such loop-lakes are known in America by the special name of ‘Ox-bows’. 1957 L. Eiseley Immense Journey 22 Fishes of this type who get themselves immured in oxygenless ponds or in cut-off oxbows buried in winter drifts. 1985 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 7 July Each spring the White [River] floods its bottomlands, refilling and restocking the oxbows. 3. = oxbow stirrup n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup stirrupc1000 steel bowc1275 iron1662 saddle iron1772 shovel-stirrup1883 oxbow stirrup1907 oxbow1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §915/5 Ox bows,..wide old-fashioned wooden stirrups. 2002 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 69 The rider puts his feet in his oxbows, holds his markout and calls for the gate. Compounds C1. General attributive, chiefly with reference to shape. oxbow bend n. ΚΠ 1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 12 The high plain here trends to the west, and turns the course of the Connecticut so that it makes an ox-bow bend. 1993 Boston Globe (Nexis) 2 Apr. 85 The museum stands..high on a hill with a long view northward across an ox-bow bend of the Housatonic River. C2. oxbow key n. now rare a key for fastening the end of an oxbow (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar > part of hame13.. tee1494 bearing gear1616 pole piece1619 pole chain1725 afterwale1833 oxbow key1882 barge1908 1882 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 480 Ox-bow keys, 2 inch. a1918 J. Bratt Trails of Yesterday (1921) xiii. 52 In the morning I was set to work..making ox-bow keys and fitting bows to yokes. oxbow lake n. originally U.S. a curved lake of standing water formed from an oxbow (sense 2a) when the main stream of the river cuts across the narrow neck of land and the resulting change in flow causes the adjacent parts of the curve to become silted up. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 1843 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes in Forest & Prairie I. 180 These wanderers had encamped upon the sandbeach of Tseka, about a gunshot from the cove where the inlet of Oxbow Lake flows from it into the swamp that lies between them.] 1887 Science 16 Sept. 142/1 The third [heading] contained the greatest number of varieties, such as lakes held by lava, ice, and drift barriers, delta and ox-bow lakes, and some others. 1992 T. Pow In Palace of Serpents (BNC) 66 The forest opened at Laguna Chica, a perfect oxbow lake. oxbow stirrup n. a stirrup having the shape of an oxbow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup stirrupc1000 steel bowc1275 iron1662 saddle iron1772 shovel-stirrup1883 oxbow stirrup1907 oxbow1942 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. i. 5 Uncle Jim sat placidly on his white horse, his thin knees bent to the ox-bow stirrups, smoking. 1981 R. H. Beatie Saddles 361/2 Skeleton-rigged saddle, an early saddle consisting of only a rawhide-covered tree, rawhide rigging for the rigging ring, and rawhide stirrup leathers tied to the bars.., usually with wide oxbow stirrups. C3. attributive. Cabinetmaking. Designating a piece of furniture partially composed of two convex sections and a central concave section, as oxbow chest, oxbow front, etc. ΚΠ 1929 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. ii. 6/3 An eighteenth century Pennsylvania painted comb-back Windsor armchair with horseshoe spindle back pierced by seven spindles forming a high comb with ox-bow crowing rail. 1981 Washington Post 8 Feb. l3/6 Among the items to be sold will be..a Massachusetts Chippendale mahogany oxbow desk. 1986 Time (Nexis) 8 Sept. 15 He can keep the bidding on this early American cherry oxbow chest spinning in the air all morning. 2003 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 15 Feb. a6 An American Queen Anne- or Chippendale-style slant-top desk with an oxbow front. 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