Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ox used for drawing loads.
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Examples
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He was agitated, as all "clean-minded" young men are, whose amorous passions have for once got the better of their qualms, and he breathed very heavily, -- rather like a draft-ox at the turn of the plough.
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