oxcart

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Recent Examples of oxcart There was little shelter for the newcomers, and only those with money could obtain oxcarts. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024 Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024 Sheets and his colleagues tried using oxen and an oxcart belonging to a Joya de Cerén villager instead of a truck. Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets. Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022 The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600. Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021 Barges on the river and oxcarts on land brought thousands of tons of stone and other construction materials from faraway places in France to the building site. Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019 As Bob Ruppert writes in Journal of the American Revolution, the rebels loaded the statue’s mangled remains onto oxcarts bound for a foundry in Litchfield, Connecticut. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
Noun
  • The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • While bikes are permitted, the most efficient way to deliver packages are through dray wagon horse carriages.
    Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • Wheeler Farm: Meet Santa on the farmhouse porch and take a wagon ride through the light displays 5-7pm each Friday through Dec. 20.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Enquirer reports described people stealing pushcarts and running wagons into the canal (where Central Parkway is today).
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Creation and delivery times for personalized items can vary, so check your cart at checkout for the most current estimates.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Add Spiced Buttercream Apples Scented Jar Candle to your cart.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024

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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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