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What is an oxbow?

What is an oxbow? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke
  2. A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop
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South Moravia is home to extensive marshes, oxbow lakes and the largest fragments of hardwood floodplain forest in Central Europe.
During the late 1780s, Chapin's shop gradually shifted from cabriole-legged case furniture to forms with oxbow facades and ogee feet.
Just across the Mobile County line, pine plantations yield to a primeval landscape of moss-draped trees and oxbow lakes.
To venture into the almost trackless south of the Rufiji River, to the network of tributaries and oxbow lakes, is truly wild.
In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
Population A was located adjacent to an oxbow of the Bowie River, in Forest County, Mississippi.

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