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oxen across IJR

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Alec OxenfordThe Argentine entrepreneur with nowhere else to be today.Sofia OxenhamOff script, off duty, unreasonably available.Ed OxenbouldThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.

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An ox (: oxen, ), also known as a bullock (in BrE, AusE, and IndE), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas. Oxen are used for plowing, for transport (pulling carts, hauling wagons and even riding), for threshing grain by trampling, and for powering machines that grind grain or supply irrigation among other purposes. Oxen may be also used to skid logs in forests, particularly in low-impact, select-cut logging. Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might require just one pair, while for heavier work, further pairs would be added as necessary. A team used for a heavy load over difficult ground might exceed nine or ten pairs. Domestication Oxen are thought to have first been harnessed and put to work around 4000 BC.

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Notable quotes

“Bitch, I'm a cow. I'm not a cat, I don't say meow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow: I go moo!”
— Doja Cat, "Mooo!", Amala (2018), Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1772)
“His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.”
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“If you want to own cows you must sleep in the fields with them.”
— Rwandan proverb, as quoted in Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man (2006), ch. 10
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.”
— Isaiah 1:3 (KJV)
“You should not move the oxen from their places!”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II, 3rd millennium BCE, at ETCSL

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

An ox (: oxen, ), also known as a bullock (in BrE, AusE, and IndE), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas. Oxen are used for plowing, for transport (pulling carts, hauling wagons and even riding), for threshing grain by trampling, and for powering machines that grind grain or supply irrigation among other purposes. Oxen may be also used to skid logs in forests, particularly in low-impact, select-cut logging. Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might require just one pair, while for heavier work, further pairs would be added as necessary. A team used for a heavy load over difficult ground might exceed nine or ten pairs. Domestication Oxen are thought to have first been harnessed and put to work around 4000 BC.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

An ox (: oxen, ), also known as a bullock (in BrE, AusE, and IndE), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas.

Not who you're looking for? Others named oxen: 2023 Danish television series

Notable quotes

“Bitch, I'm a cow. I'm not a cat, I don't say meow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow. Bitch, I'm a cow, bitch, I'm a cow: I go moo!”
— Doja Cat, "Mooo!", Amala (2018), Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1772)
“His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.”
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“If you want to own cows you must sleep in the fields with them.”
— Rwandan proverb, as quoted in Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man (2006), ch. 10
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.”
— Isaiah 1:3 (KJV)
“You should not move the oxen from their places!”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II, 3rd millennium BCE, at ETCSL

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

oxen across IJR

Studio characters

Alec OxenfordThe Argentine entrepreneur with nowhere else to be today.Sofia OxenhamOff script, off duty, unreasonably available.Ed OxenbouldThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.

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