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Wright's OE grammar
§5; §47; §106; §107; §156; §158; §327; §401; §562;
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  • Oxan horn bið .x. pæninga weorð,

      Ll. Th. i. 138, 21.

  • Oxan tægl bið sciłł. weorð, cuus bið fífa penega. Oxan eáge bið fíf p. weorð, cús bið sciłł. weorð,

      140, 2-4.

  • Cóm se deófol. . . and hæfde ǽnne oxan horn on hande,

      Hml. S. 31, 776.

  • Ágife hire (

    a widow with a child

    ) mon .vi. tó fóstre, cú on sumera, oxan on wintra,
      126, 5.

  • Né untígð eówer ǽlc on restedæge his oxan (oxo, R. woxo, L.

    bouuem suum),

      Lk. L. 13, 15. .xii.
    þeówe men and .ii. gesylhðe oxan, C. D. iv. 263, 20.
  • Mon selle him tó ðém londe .iiii. oxan, .ii. cý, and .L. scépa, and ǽnne horn, i. 310, 13: 27.

  • Ic (

    the ploughman)

    gá út on dægræd þýwende oxan tó felda . . . geiukodan oxan . . . ǽlce dæg ic sceal erian fulne æcer . . . Ic hæbbe sumne cnapan þýwende oxan mid gádísene . . . Ic sceal fyllan binnan oxan mid híg, and wæterian hig, and scearn heora beran út,
      Coll. M. 19, 13-20, 3.

  • Þá þá hé his oxan rǽpte, þá scóc án his heáfod, and mid þám horne hine þýde,

      Hml. S. 31, 785.

  • Hét hé spannan oxan tó,

      9, 106.

  • Þá þe sealdon oxsan (oxan,

    v. l., exin, L., exen, R. boues ),

      Jn. 2, 14.

  • Exen, calfero boves, vitulos, Rtl. 119, 28. ¶ oxan gang an ox-gang (v. N. E. D. s. v.),

    an eighth of a carucate or plough-land, a bovate.

    [The carucate was the extent of land ploughed by one plough with its team of eight oxen] :-- On hillum twégra oxena gang, and on Lundbý twégra oxena gang, C. D. B. iii. 346, 20-21.
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[Án híde búton ánes oxan gang, 370, 5.]
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v. hýr-oxa.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “oxa.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/56840.

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