Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crude vehicle, with solid plank wheels, drawn by bullocks: used in South Africa.

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Examples

  • In a corner was a bullock-wagon, and a pair of big black-and-white oxen standing with heads pressed down, waiting.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Outside, the sound of the bullock-wagon could be heard, and from the lake, the faint knocking of oars.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • On one point both he and Paddy agreed, that the journey should be made in a bullock-wagon by the ladies, and that the gentlemen should ride on horseback.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • This is one of the principal lines of road in Brazil; yet it was in so bad a state that no wheel vehicle, excepting the clumsy bullock-wagon, could pass along.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • By day an occasional spindly buggy might amble along their vast width, or a solitary bullock-wagon take its tortoise way; but after dark, feebly lit by ill-trimmed lamps set at enormous distances one from another, they turned into mere desolate, wind-swept spaces.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • This is one of the principal lines of road in Brazil; yet it was in so bad a state that no wheel vehicle, excepting the clumsy bullock-wagon, could pass along.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Both horse and driver seemed to be equally affected with terror, but since the carriage was going towards the city Smith was perfectly well satisfied, and did not turn a hair even when it narrowly escaped a collision with a bullock-wagon.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • A passing bullock-wagon had given her a lift, and the somewhat anxious rescue party, setting out from Billabong, had met its youthful mistress, bruised from much bumping, but otherwise cheerful, progressing in slow majesty towards its gates.

    Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • Adrianople, a bullock-wagon carrying my baggage, an interpreter trundling my bicycle, I riding a small pony.

    Bulgaria Frank Fox 1917

  • Sofia, a ten days 'journey, by bullock-wagon and railway, to give them time to mature.

    Bulgaria Frank Fox 1917

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