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Oxcart

Definition: Oxcart

Oxcart

Noun

1. A cart that is drawn by an ox.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "oxcart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Commercial Usage: Oxcart

DomainTitle

Books

  • History of the Gentlemen on Horsebace and from Oxcart to Space Age (reference)

  • Oxcart Trail (reference)

  • The Red River Trails: Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, 1820-1870 (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society.) (reference)

  • The Tale Of The Tardy Oxcart (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Oxcart

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Oxcart

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Going to work by horse and oxcart Believed to be Roland Horne on horseback. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The church at San Carlos C&GS crew moving by pony and oxcart. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oxcart used by early settlers of Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oxcart

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

oxcart

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Oxcart

Language Translations for "oxcart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qerre (cart, dray, tumbrel, tumbril, waggon, wagon, wain). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

волска кола. (various references)

   

German

  

gespann (harness, horse and cart, pair, span, team, yoke). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βωδάμαξα. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

牛車 (ox carriage). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎっしゃ (ox carriage), ぎゅうしゃ (cattle barn, cow shed, ox carriage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oxcartay

   

Russian 

  

повозка (cart, dogcart, gharri, gharry, hackery, hackney, waggon, wagon, wain). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

volovska kola. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกวียนที่ลาก"้วยวัว. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Oxcart

Derivations

Words beginning with "oxcart": oxcarts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Oxcart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bocart, Boscart, Foccart, ocar, Oxcar, Oxshott, toxacara, toxicara. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Oxcart"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "oxcart" (pronounced Ä"kskÄ'rt)
3-Ä' r tcounterpart, mouthpart, multipart, outsmart, sweetheart, upstart.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Oxcart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-t-x"

-1 letter: actor, taroc.

-2 letters: arco, cart, coat, coax, coxa, orca, rato, rota, taco, taro, tora, torc.

-3 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, cor, cot, cox, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, rat, rax, roc, rot, tao, tar, tax, tor.

-4 letters: ar, at, ax, or, ox, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-t-x"
 

+1 letter: exactor, oxcarts.

 

+2 letters: exactors.

 

+3 letters: excavator, excoriate, execrator, extractor.

 

+4 letters: chatterbox, coadjutrix, excavators, excitatory, excoriated, excoriates, excusatory, execration, execrators, explicator, extraction, extractors.

 

+5 letters: auxotrophic, axonometric, carboxylate, exclamatory, excoriating, excoriation, exculpatory, execrations, executorial, exorbitance, expectorant, expectorate, explicators, explicatory, extractions, extrication, stereotaxic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Oxcart


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 78 63 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    -..-    -.-.    .-    .-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01111000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#99 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0063 0061 0072 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

499069678486

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Oxcart"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, албанский, albanski, albanac

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, "ερμανός, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , немецкий, germanski, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japonez, японски език, японци, японски, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjaponez, японски език, японци, японски, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ชาวรัสเซีย

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย

Thai

พจนานุกรมthailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, たい", าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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