bullock-bow

noun

A U-shaped piece of wood that passes round a bullock's neck forming part of the yoke.

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Meanings

nounbullock-bow (plural bullock-bows)

plural bullock-bows

  1. A U-shaped piece of wood that passes round a bullock's neck forming part of the yoke.

    The rod dragged him right back to the well, where it doubled him like a bullock-bow and threatened to pin him to the earth.

    1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 8
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