English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ox + butt (“cart”)
ox-butt (plural ox-butts)
- (West Country, obsolete) An ox-drawn cart.
1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall[1], page 352:The ox-butt has been long established in Cornwall, and is a kind of cart drawn by oxen in yokes.
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