Oxbow (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a U-shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  2. Physical Geography, Geology.
    • a bow-shaped bend in a river, or the land embraced by it.
    • a bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river.
noun
  1. a U-shaped piece of wood fitted under and around the neck of a harnessed ox and attached to the yoke
  2. a small curved lake lying on the flood plain of a river and constituting the remnant of a former meander
    Oxbow (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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