Crossword clues for oxbow
oxbow
- Yoke part
- Western classic, "The ___ Incident"
- U-shaped curve in a stream
- Bend in a river
- "The ___ Incident"
- U-shaped yoke collar
- Extreme curve in a river
- Classic oater, "The ___ Incident"
- "The ___ Incident" (Henry Fonda movie)
- ''The ___ Incident'' (Henry Fonda oater)
- ''The ___ Incident'' (1943 film)
- U-shaped yoke holder
- U-shaped part of a yoke
- Sharp river bend
- Omega-shaped bend in a river
- Lake formed by a bend in a river
- Horseshoe bend in a stream
- Classic movie incident
- 180-degree river bend
- "The ___ Incident" (Henry Fonda film)
- "The ___ Incident" (1943 Henry Fonda film)
- ''The ___ Incident'' (Fonda Western)
- Part of a yoke
- "The ___ Incident" (1943 Fonda film)
- U-shaped river bend
- Curving lake's shape
- U-shaped piece of wood
- Yoke attachment
- U-shaped bend in a river
- A U-shaped curve in a stream
- A wooden framework bent in the shape of a U
- Its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox
- Filmic "Incident" of 1943
- "The ___ Incident," 1943 movie
- "The ___ Incident," 1943 film
- River bend
- Steer front of boat into kind of lake
- Steer front of boat in lake
- Small curved lake
- Horseshoe river bend
- River loop
- Take too much off boxwood sculpted harness piece
- "The ___ Incident" (Fonda Western)
- River curve
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oxbow \Ox"bow`\, n. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also ox-bow, mid-14c., "wooden collar for an ox," from ox + bow (n.1). Meaning "semicircular bend in a river" is from 1797, American English (New England); meaning "curved lake left after an oxbow meander has been cut off by a change in the river course" is from 1898. The reference is to similarity of shape.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke 2 A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop
WordNet
n. the land inside an oxbow bend in a river
a U-shaped curve in a stream
a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox
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Housing Units (2000): 84
Land area (2000): 0.406874 sq. miles (1.053798 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.406874 sq. miles (1.053798 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60480
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.674309 N, 96.803634 W
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Headwords:
Oxbow
Wikipedia
An oxbow is part of oxen tack.
Oxbow may also refer to:
- Oxbow lake
- Meander in a river, especially a horseshoe-shaped one
__NOTOC__ An oxbow is a U-shaped metal pole (or larger wooden frame) that fits the underside and the sides of the neck of an ox or bullock. A bow pin holds it in place.
Oxbow is an experimental rock band from San Francisco, California. Founded in 1989, Oxbow plays a blend of noise rock, avant-garde jazz, Contemporary classical music, and blues. The band has released six studio albums.
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Oxbow (foaled March 26, 2010), an American Thoroughbred racehorse, is best known for winning the second jewel in the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, the 2013 Preakness Stakes. A bay colt, sired by a winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic and out of a full sister to another Breeders' Cup Classic winner, Oxbow was sold as a yearling at Keeneland for $250,000 and is owned by Brad Kelley of Calumet Farm. He was trained by D. Wayne Lukas and was ridden in his Triple Crown races by Gary Stevens.
Oxbow had a reputation as a front-runner who was difficult to rate during his races. Plagued with frequent turnover in jockeys prior to the Triple Crown series, and often running from poor starting gate post positions, he had only two wins prior to his victory in the Preakness. That success was Calumet Farm's first win in a Triple Crown race in 45 years and breeder Richard Santulli's first win in a Triple Crown classic race. It also was Stevens' first Triple Crown win since 2001, following his return to riding in early 2013 after a seven-year retirement, and Lukas' first Triple Crown win since 2000.
Oxbow's second-place finish in the Belmont Stakes in June made him the third horse that year to reach $1 million in purse wins. Following the Belmont, he was ranked the top three-year-old racehorse in the United States by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA). He was pulled up shortly after finishing fourth in the Haskell Invitational, and was found to have suffered a soft tissue injury, was taken out of competition for the remainder of his three-year-old season, and retired in October 2013. He stands at stud for the 2015 breeding season at Calumet Farms.
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.