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- noun Plural form of
oxcart .
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Examples
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The spaceport, designed to blend into the desert landscape, lies on the edge of the famous Camino Real, where oxcarts were once the state of the art in travel technology.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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What worked then will not work now, anymore than recreating urban transportation with oxcarts and pennyfarthing bicycles will work today.
How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010
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Drawn by the promise of free land, they had journeyed to Texas from Illinois in 1833 in a caravan of thirty oxcarts.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Japan was a huge influence on me because, as a child, I would hear the oxcarts come and collect our sewage at night out of our house from the latrine and then take it off to the farms as fertilizer.
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A steady parade of oxcarts wound toward the villages, bearing baskets of smokeless coals and sacks of idol eyes.
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And then the food would come back in oxcarts during the day.
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The Heiji Monogatari Scroll shows oxcarts they all seem to have oxen attached with those oval wheels you remember.
Dutch Futurists 2009
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We would have water mills, and foundries, and oxcarts; and coarse linens, and hooded cloaks, and sophisticated techniques for building cathedrals.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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My taxi driver weaves through an endless stream of motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, and oxcarts.
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My taxi driver weaves through an endless stream of motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, and oxcarts.
India's 50-MPG Tata Nano: Auto Solution or Pollution? By Scott Carney 2008
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