Definitions for oxen

oxen ox·en

Spelling: [ok-suh n]
IPA: /ˈɒk sən/

Oxen is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in oxen (enox).

Definitions for oxen

noun

  1. a plural of ox.
  2. the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
  3. any member of the bovine family.
  4. Informal. a clumsy, stupid fellow.

Origin of oxen

before 900; Middle English oxe, Old English oxa; cognate with Old Frisian oxa, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, Old Norse uxi, oxi; akin to Welsh ych

Examples for oxen

They also held the oxen's yokes, so that nobody or anything could rattle, or make any noise.

Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable.

We'd have oxen roasted whole, an' honey—an'—but that's as fur as I can git.

A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.

We were told he should come this day in a wagon drawn by oxen, and here he is!

Once it was so huge that three hundred yoke of oxen could hardly move it.

I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung.

With these were also granted 6,000 oxen accustomed to the plough, as well as supplies of seeds, &c.

They held about five acres, but provided no oxen for the manorial plough-team.

I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.

Word Value for oxen
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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