ox-butt

noun

An ox-drawn cart.

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Meanings

nounox-butt (plural ox-butts)

plural ox-butts

  1. West CountryobsoleteAn ox-drawn cart.

    The ox-butt has been long established in Cornwall, and is a kind of cart drawn by oxen in yokes.

    1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 352

Origin

From ox + butt (“cart”).

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