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Oxbow

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in North Dakota.
  2. 2
    A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Noun
  1. 1
    A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts of which are fastened to its yoke.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop.
  4. 4
    a U-shaped curve in a stream wordnet
  5. 5
    the land inside an oxbow bend in a river wordnet

Etymology

From ox + bow.

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