Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 14 compound words that contain oxen. The most common are listed below. Open oxen in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- musk oxenplural of musk ox: An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.
- wild oxenplural of wild ox: Any of several mammals including the aurochs, kouprey, banteng, gaur or reem.
- olly olly oxen freeA call in a children's game to say that players in hiding are free to come out.
- Indian oxenplural of Indian ox: zebu
- near oxenplural of near ox: An ox on the left side of a team of oxen, closer to a driver than an off ox.
- off oxenplural of off ox: An ox on the right side of a team of oxen, farther away from a driver customarily walking on the left of the team than a near ox.
- sea-oxenplural of sea-ox: A walrus.
- grunting oxenplural of grunting ox: yak.
Compound words 14
- oxengateSynonym of oxgang: The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, ¹⁄₈ hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres.
- oxenlessWithout oxen.
- oxenkindAll oxen and their close relatives, considered as a group.
- OxendineA surname.
- OxenhamA habitational surname.
- OxenhopeA village and civil parish with a village council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0335).
- muskoxenplural of muskox: An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.
- OxenbridgeA surname from Old English.
- Oxenbridgesplural of Oxenbridge: A surname from Old English.
- OxendaleA habitational surname.