Meanings
alternative ox-drawn
- not comparableDrawn or pulled by oxen.
Cultures with furtive heels / return to your scholar's view, / whole biographies / lost on oxdrawn wheels;
2015, Elise Partridge, “The Finder”, in The Exiles' Gallery, Toronto, O.N.: House of Anansi Press, →ISBN, page 813 more examples
About 1500 B.C., it was overrun by tribesmen who had the military advantage of possessing iron weapons and horsedrawn chariots as against the copper weapons and oxdrawn carts of the natives.
1975, L[eften] S[tavros] Stavrianos, The World to 1500: A Global History, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, pages 80–81Historically earlier forms of writing—such as the boustrophedon, or the way the oxdrawn plow moves—would have yielded a simpler line of writing for cutting, semiotically continuous and more readily materially isolated.
2010, Julian Warner, Human Information Retrieval, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 100After digging up the anthills, they crush the soil, sift it and then cart it to their fields by oxdrawn carts or wheel barrows.
2019 December 6, Elliott Siamonga, “Input prices derail cropping season preparations”, in The Chronicle, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2020
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