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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter

, 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.

See also: oxbow

Oxbow

See also: Oxbow

oxbow ‎(plural oxbows)

A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke
A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop