Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
oxfence .
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- noun A type of
horse jump with tworails that may be seteven oruneven .
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Examples
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Eric collected Luna and got her over three more verticals and the final jump—an oxer—without another problem.
Canterwood Crest Jessica Burkhart 2009
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Charm jumped it and stayed calm as he took the next two verticals—both three feet high—and then cantered toward the first oxer.
Canterwood Crest Jessica Burkhart 2009
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She popped over the brush jump, the oxer, and the tall vertical.
Canterwood Crest Triple Fault Katie Kitamura 2009
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“The two verticals, the oxer, the double oxer, another vertical, turn, and then take the jump with the flower boxes.”
Canterwood Crest Triple Fault Katie Kitamura 2009
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Today, she took him over an oxer and he started limping.
Canterwood Crest Triple Fault Katie Kitamura 2009
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Erin, who is cruel and exacting, has a particularly brutal exercise where she has us canter between the two rails of an oxer, or spread fence, so that we are perfectly straight as we approach a crossrail.
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Of course the next fence, an oxer with a pole in front and back, is the biggest and most imposing jump on the course.
Yatima » 2009 » June 2009
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Erin, who is cruel and exacting, has a particularly brutal exercise where she has us canter between the two rails of an oxer, or spread fence, so that we are perfectly straight as we approach a crossrail.
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The lightest check on the reins, to tell him I am back in business, and pressure from my restored calves, to bring his canter up and bouncy and strong into the oxer.
Yatima » 2009 » June 2009
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She jumped it and headed for the oxer—white boards with caution cones on either side.
Canterwood Crest Triple Fault Katie Kitamura 2009
bilby commented on the word oxer
Oh geez, this is a hangman winner if ever I saw one.
August 7, 2014