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oxback en · NOUN

Etymology

From ox + back, modelled on horseback.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually, with-on) The back of an ox (being ridden, or laden with luggage, as a means of transportation).
    • Grenfell had travelled 1,000 miles on oxback; a new experience to him, but a most con venient manner of getting over the country. [Photo of a man riding an ox.] GRENFELL ON OXBACK 1900, William Holman Bentley, Pioneering on the Congo, page 224:
    • 3. A bushman on oxback, and our guide on horseback. 4. My wagon and ten oxen. 5. Our flock of sheep and goats. 6. Our third wagon and ten oxen. 7. The chief and his son, on oxback. 8. Our spare oxen. 1841, Robert Philip, The life, times, and missionary enterprises, of the rev. John Campbell, page 441: