Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) of Asia, often domesticated especially as a draft animal and having large spreading horns. Also called carabao, water ox.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See watercow.
Wiktionary
- n. A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe.
- n. US, colloquial A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Zoöl.) The European buffalo.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
Examples
“Kudra took to the marriage bed the way a water buffalo takes to a mud wallow.”
“It tells of a man named Don Lamu, who strolled out to move his water buffalo onto pasture and “got an attack from a komodo which caused a very serious pain which needed a very long cure.””
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