Usually means: Curved lake formed by river.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word oxbow:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxbow: Merriam-Webster
  2. oxbow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oxbow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oxbow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oxbow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oxbow, oxbow: Wordnik
  7. Oxbow, oxbow: Wiktionary
  8. oxbow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. oxbow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. oxbow: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. oxbow: Dictionary.com
  12. Oxbow (band), Oxbow (disambiguation), Oxbow (horse), Oxbow (surfwear), Oxbow, The Oxbow (Connecticut River), The Oxbow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Oxbow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. oxbow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. oxbow: Rhymezone
  16. Oxbow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. oxbow: FreeDictionary.org
  18. oxbow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. oxbow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oxbow (lake), oxbow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Oxbow)

▸ noun:  A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts of which are fastened to its yoke.
▸ noun:  A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop.
▸ noun:  A town in North Dakota.
▸ noun:  A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Similar:
yoke, sole, neck yoke, oarlock, horsecollar, collar, saddlebow, cangue, outrigger, Bowtell, more...

Types:
natural, artificial, oxbow lake, oxbow bend, oxbow island, oxbow swamp, more...

Phrases:
oxbow lakes, oxbow lake, oxbow loop, The Oxbow, more...

Adjectives:
old, great, large, big, stiff, muddy, silky, smooth



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Similar:
yoke, sole, neck yoke, oarlock, horsecollar, collar, saddlebow, cangue, outrigger, Bowtell, more...

Types:
natural, artificial, oxbow lake, oxbow bend, oxbow island, oxbow swamp, more...

Phrases:
oxbow lakes, oxbow lake, oxbow loop, The Oxbow, more...

Adjectives:
old, great, large, big, stiff, muddy, silky, smooth



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