ox-butt

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English

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Etymology

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From ox +‎ butt (cart).

Noun

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ox-butt (plural ox-butts)

  1. (West Country, obsolete) An ox-drawn cart.
    • 1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall[1], page 352:
      The ox-butt has been long established in Cornwall, and is a kind of cart drawn by oxen in yokes.
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