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Definition of Oxbows
1. oxbow [n] - See also: oxbow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxbows
Literary usage of Oxbows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1917)
"oxbows. The Connecticut, swinging broadly in fine and homogeneous sediments ...
It has thrown out to the right and cut off seven great oxbows and has formed ..."
2. Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island by Benjamin Kendall Emerson (1917)
"oxbows. The Connecticut, swinging broadly in fine and homogeneous sediments across
the Hadley Lake, has been so nicely balanced that it has obeyed ..."
3. Field, Laboratory, and Library Manual in Physical Geography by Cary Thomas Wright (1906)
"Shaler, Aspects of the Earth: 152-155% oxbows, or moats. Shaler, Outlines of the
Earth's History: 180b-183, Meanders, oxbows. Special terms. ..."
4. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"An assailant must cross both flood plain and river, impeded by the oxbows, swamps,
and tributaries, and facing the danger of floods and of sudden changes of ..."
5. The Industries of Russia by Russia Ministerstvo finansov, John Martin Crawford, World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"The only other important branch of telega manufacture of which will be discussed
here is the preparation of oxbows which are in use in many places, ..."
6. Reports of Decisions on the Code of Procedure by New York (State), Courts (1852)
"But again, the defence relates as specified in the affidavits to a few oxbows
only, amounting at most to $250, yet defendants seek not to recover the ..."
7. Adventure Guide to Hungary by Dante Mena (2007)
"The higher banks of the "living Tisza," the flowing natural course, as opposed
to the dead backwaters and oxbows, are carpeted with a rich forest harking ..."
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