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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oxcart
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the seasonal monsoon, mud limited the passage to oxcarts.
▪ Farmers still transported stacks of rice straw on oxcarts, just as their ancestors had done.
▪ The Blackbird, introduced in 1964 and retired in 1990, was the antithesis of a lumbering, earthbound oxcart.
▪ We organized teams of youths to load the bodies on oxcarts and take them to mass graves outside the city.
Wiktionary
oxcart

alt. A cart designed to be drawn by an ox or oxen. n. A cart designed to be drawn by an ox or oxen.

WordNet
oxcart

n. a cart that is drawn by an ox

Wikipedia
Oxcart

Oxcart or ox cart can mean:

  • Bullock cart, a cart pulled by oxen
  • CIA codename for the program to produce the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft

See also:

  • Ox-Cart Library
  • Ox-Cart Man
  • Red River ox cart

Usage examples of "oxcart".

Though these things typically turned out to be tree trunks and roots, other wonders turned up in bogs occasionally--rough beams of oak, ancient oxcarts, wheels of cheese or wooden tubs of butter.

There are four furnaces the size of three oxcarts in length, a fritting furnace, a melting furnace for working the glass, an annealing furnace for cooling, and a furnace for spreading the glass sheets.

Again Nehru broke off in midsentence, this time because the oxcart driver was throwing off the coverings that concealed his two passengers.

A train of oxcarts lumbered south with grain and sacks of wool, and later she passed a swineherd driving pigs, and an old woman in a horse litter with an escort of mounted guards.

The number of wagons and mules and carts, carriages, oxcarts, drivers, artisans and craftsmen, horses and grooms, had been certain almost from the moment one oxcart had been necessary.

The agency was then completing work on a super-fast, super-high-flying successor to the U-2, codenamed Oxcart.

Patient oxcarts labored back and forth from the blast site to the platform where they discharged their cargoes, rock dumped and spread in endless repetition: blasting in the upper ridges, to oxcart, to the dam, like the action of ants worrying at a carcass, until the cliffs disappeared bit by bit and the dam grew.

Merritt came up behind him and stood beside him as they waited for one of the lumbering, perilously loaded oxcarts to make its way past and enter the tortuous downward road to the plateau by the dam.

No last-moment oxcarts barred their way out this morning, no inopportune gaggle of geese or other flapping fowl met them in the gate.

Eumachus and Marcus Marius split their hundred thousand men away from the three hundred thousand belonging to Mithridates, supplies were running so short that the King was obliged to send snakelike trails of men back many miles to struggling oxcarts and make these men carry heavy loads of foods on their shoulders to feed the army.

They had put the coffin in an oxcart over which they built a canopy of banana leaves, but the pressure of the rain was so intense and the streets so muddy that with every step the wheels got stuck and the covering was on the verge of falling apart.

Northbound traffic was mostly beef cattle and some sheep, together with oxcarts loaded with sacks of grain or potatoes, butter and cheese in tubs.

Hasjarl cried -- all eagerness, no threat -- and perhaps because they were neither startled nor threatened, each wizard did his work perfectly, so that there came green-pale onto the screen Gwaay's face, wide as an oxcart and team, the plagues visible by the huge pustules and crustings and fungoid growths if not by their colors, the eyes like great vats stewing with ichor, the mouth a quaking bog-hole, while each drop that fell from the nose-tip looked a gallon.

They also overtook farmers carrying braces of chickens, trudging along beside their wives lugging baskets of eggs, or bunches of onions, or carrots, or bushels of beans, and once an oxcart piled high with turnips, and another with yellow squash as big and round as heads.