Yoke attachment

Usage examples of oxbow.

Master Byles Gridley had known what society was in his earlier time, and understood very well that all a gentleman of his age had to do was to dress himself in his usual plain way, only taking a little more care in his arrangements than was needed in the latitude of Oxbow Village.

Surrounded by forest, in the long shadow of Mount Hood, it consisted of a winding, flat sandy bed cutting through black lava cliffs, leaving tufty islands and curving oxbows.

After dropping down karst highlands, she meandered across grassy steppes, winding into oxbows, breaking into separate channels and rejoining again as she wove her way south.

Rather than several rills, creeks, and streams contributing to a larger body of running water, often the same river was crossed several times as it meandered across flat grasslands, turning back on itself in oxbows and breaking into channels.

A small river ran through the valley floor, winding in lazy oxbows through tiny, barren fields.

Bathsheba had on her bonnet a little after Olive had gone, and walked straight up to The Poplars to tell Myrtle Hazard that a certain young gentleman, Clement Lindsay, was coming to Oxbow Village.

On one of the sweetest Sundays that ever made Oxbow Village lovely, the Rev. Dr.

Sormo said that this place has seen battle beforesaid this oxbow island wasn't natural… oh, Queen of Dreams, yet another Wickan nightmare!

She was no longer a huge meandering surge Bng with ponderous dignity across the flat plains, taking in countless butanes and volumes of silt, then breaking into channels and form r oxbow lakes.

It was built on the east bank of the river, a little above the curve which gave the name to Oxbow Village.

He recognized it by the oxbow bend of the banks and the giant makuyu trees on the opposite side, with a fish eagle nest in the upper branches.

All around shimmered the volumes and volumes of stars, including the double oxbow -- part of the encompassing galaxy, analogous to the Milky Way seen from Earth.

She relaxed in the grounded stability of her chair, watching liquid light oxbow over the viscous black water of the harbor, listening to Michel talk to the people sitting at the next table, tasting the olive oil and bread, the cheeses and ouzo.

Of more importance is that a former channel may indicate the river's course has changed-which would produce the oxbow lake your father spoke of.

The pond was the nearest possible thing to an oxbow lake, still connected to the stream but without the rushing waters.