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- adjective rare Having no
ox oroxen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On those "oxless" shores, where, as Byron says, "beef was rare," though
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Once a "harness-cask," hostile to every sense, came trundled by waves eager to expel it from the vicinity of these oxless but scented isles.
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“harness-cask,” hostile to every sense, came trundled by waves eager to expel it from the vicinity of these oxless but scented isles.
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He could not resist the singularly appropriate quotation — ‘But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goats’ flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton, And when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.’
Sketches by Boz 2007
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The factory’s rear door slid open, and an oxless wagon rolled into the alley.
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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