oxlessadj.
/ˈɒksləs/, U.S. /ˈɑksləs/ rare.
Lacking an ox or oxen.
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1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cliv. 196 But beef is rare within these oxless isles.
1874 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 150/1 Beef, good beef, is rare, as in the oxless Grecian Isles.
1995 Discover Aug. 78 Almost anything can qualify as a machine—a lever, a teeter-totter, an axle, or even an oxless oxcart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1819- cast to the dogs
- cast under foot
- cast up
- cast up a gamond
- cast up one's accounts
- cast up, heave, spue up, vomit one's gorge
- cast water
- cast, chase, drive, hunt, scare, etc a person out of house and home
- cast, chase, drive, hunt, scare, etc out of house and home
- cast, erect, set a figure
- cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass
- cast, fling, etc an old shoe after
- cast, fling, etc an old shoe after a person
- cast, heave the lead
- cast, lay a scheme
- cast, put, or throw the stone
- cast, put, throw a slur on or upon
- cast, put, throw a slur on or upon a person
- cast, put, throw a slur on or upon a thing
- cast, put, throw etc a slur on or upon
- cast, put, throw etc a slur on or upon a person
- cast, put, throw etc a slur on or upon a thing
- cast, take up, throw down the glove
- cast, take up, throw the glove
- cast, throw into the shade