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n. A U-shaped piece of wood that fits under and around the neck of an ox, with its upper ends attached to the bar of the yoke.

n. A U-shaped bend in a river.

n. The land within such a bend of a river.

n. A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke

n. A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop

n. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

n. A curved piece of wood the ends of which are inserted into an ox-yoke and held by pins. In use it encircles the neck of the animal. See yoke.

n. A bend or reach of a river resembling an ox-bow in form: a use common in New England.

n. a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox

n. a U-shaped curve in a stream

n. the land inside an oxbow bend in a river

"Over time (from decades to millennia) these river courses meander across the floodplain, resulting in ever-changing geomorphology and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swales, and point bars."

framework    meander    dry land    ground    land   

oxbow stirrup    oxbow lake   

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