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What are you eating and why? What’s next for the anti-Nato left after Ukraine? To save this word, you’ll need to log in. In decades past, this iconic Jamaican dish was once prepared with the tail of an ox.

Gebremariam’s biggest wish had been to buy his family a house and his father an ox, the prisoner said. Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Dec. Then there’s the tale of the nun who was crushed by an ox on the working farm. Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. Much of the lumber came by ox-cart from Jefferson, in East Texas.

There are many examples, from counting beans in a jar, to guessing the weight of an ox, to the Ask The Audience option in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. Only the ox-crushing tale is documented, Scarcelli said. In one passage, recommendations for a form of tracing paper included paper rubbed with linseed oil or pork fat, the amniotic membrane of a cow’s embryo, or the pericardium of an ox.

Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. Sia Xiong and Johnni Sihavong, originally from Laos, named the restaurant for their zodiac birth year: the year of the ox. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘ox. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Subscribe to America’s largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

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Learn a new word every day. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Not to be confused with Aurochs or Muskox. This article needs additional citations for verification.