To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

They used to be pulled mainly by oxen, but in recent years there has been an increasing tendency to use cows ( females ), as farmers often do not own oxen.

Many of these South Asian and Southeast Asian deer species also share their habitat with various herbivores such as Asian elephants, various Asian rhinoceros species, various antelope species ( such as nilgai, Four-horned antelope, blackbuck, and Indian gazelle in India ), and wild oxen ( such as wild Asian water buffalo, gaur, banteng, and kouprey ).

In the dry summer, the grazing on the veld became parched, weakening the Boers ' horses and draught oxen, and many Boer families joined their menfolk in the siege lines and laagers ( encampments ), fatally encumbering Cronje's army.

After stating the assessment of the manor, the record sets forth the amount of arable land, and the number of plough teams ( each reckoned at eight oxen ) available for working it, with the additional number ( if any ) that might be employed ; then the river-meadows, woodland, pasture, fisheries ( i. e. fishing weirs ), water-mills, salt-pans ( if by the sea ) and other subsidiary sources of revenue ; the peasants are enumerated in their several classes ; and finally the annual value of the whole, past and present, is roughly estimated.

As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais ( in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d ’ Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape ; and, The Horse Fair ( in French: Le marché aux chevaux ) ( which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 ( finished in 1855 ) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

Ceres was credited with the discovery of spelt wheat ( Latin far ), the yoking of oxen and ploughing, the sowing, protection and nourishing of the young seed, and the gift of agriculture to humankind ; before this, it was said, man had subsisted on acorns, and wandered without settlement or laws.

Luna is often depicted driving a two-yoke chariot ( biga ), drawn by horses or oxen.

Alternatively ( and normally where the animals are oxen or buffalo ), the cart may have a single pole between a pair of animals.

An araba ( from Arabic: عربة, araba or ) ( also arba or aroba ) is a carriage ( such as a cabriolet or coach ), wagon or cart drawn by horses or oxen, used in Turkey and neighboring Middle Eastern countries.

Note that this parable describes three yana " vehicles ; carts " drawn by goats, deer, and oxen, which is a Mahayanist wordplay upon classifying the Sutrayana Schools of Buddhism into the Hearer's Vehicle ( Sravakayana ), Solitary Conqueror's Vehicle ( Pratyekabuddhayana ), and the Bodhisattva's Vehicle ( Mahayana ).

* boxen, plural of box ( by analogy to oxen as the plural form of ox ), particularly in computer hacker slang with respect to the term " box " for a computer

In the hacker sociolect, however, the plural-en became at least ephemerally productive for words ending with ( on the analogy of ox: oxen ), as illustrated by the plurals boxen, VAXen, unixen, emacsen, and userboxen for example.

30 miles north of Los Angeles ), Manly & Rogers returned with some food supplies and a single mule ( three other horses had died on the return trip ), and the Bennett and Arcane families walked and rode their remaining oxen out of what they named, " Death Valley ".

They resemble musk oxen, and have three different sub-species — surface rothé, deep rothé ( that communicate with magical flashing lights in their Underdark home ), and ghost rothé ( large white rothé with magical abilities that grant them transportation and silence ).

It was large enough to transport loads up to 8 tons ( 7 metric tons ), and was drawn by horses, mules or oxen.

Gak ( 각: 角 ), a commonly used prefix, seems to have originated from the combative act performed by horned animals such as oxen when competing against one another for the superiority of physical strength.

Together with the reindeer in Rondane National Park the last remaining population of wild Fennoscandian reindeer of Beringia origin ( other wild Norwegian reindeer are of European origin and have interbred with domesticated reindeer to a various extent ), wolverine, and various large birds as golden eagle and gyrfalcon can be seen, and also the recently ( 1930s ) imported ( and potentially dangerous ) musk oxen.

In ( the ) demesne ( there are ) but 2 oxen ( animalia ), and ( there are ) 16 villeins and 13 borders with 9 ploughs.

* S. Zuckerman, "'... Slaying oxen and Killing Sheep, Eating Flesh and Drinking Wine ...': Feasting in Late Bronze Age Hazor ," Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 139, 3 ( 2007 ), 186-204.

The Higginson Fleet brought with them 115 head of cattle: horses and mares, cows and oxen plus 41 goats and some conies ( rabbits ), along with all the provisions needed for setting up households and surviving till they could get crops in.

Many of these immigrants crossed the Great Plains in wagons drawn by oxen, while some later groups pulled their possessions in small handcarts.

The builders placed the bones of deer and oxen in the bottom of the ditch, as well as some worked flint tools.

" In some versions, after the first player is caught, it calls out " Ollie Ollie oxen free " ( or " all outs, all in free " or many other variations ) to signal the other hiders to return to base for the next round.

William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell were the three founders of the Pony Express and were already in the freighting business in the late 1850s with more than 4, 000 men, 3, 500 wagons and some 40, 000 oxen.

Tovi had the cross loaded onto an ox-cart, but the oxen would only go in one direction and continued every day until they reached Waltham, a journey of some 150 miles.

Harrows were originally drawn by draft animals, such as horses, mules, or oxen, or in some times and places by manual labourers.

Although oxen were used to haul the heavier field and siege ordnance, some on wagons rather than limbers, they were too slow to keep up with the infantry, and so horses were used to pull the lighter pieces, leading to the development of the artillery carriage and horse team that survived until the late 19th century.

Some scholars have argued, citing early Hindu scriptures and archaeological evidence, that the cow has not always been sacred and that cows, oxen, and bulls were both sacrificed and eaten in Vedic times and to some extent even later.

A yoke is a wooden beam, normally used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, as oxen usually do ; some yokes are fitted to individual animals.

The train contained 73 wagons, one cannon, 93 horses, 52 mules, 66 oxen, 19 cows, 17 dogs and some chickens, and carried enough supplies to fully provision the group for one year.

Historically the area has always had some importance, containing valuable agricultural land in the centre of the country and the prestigious university in the county town of Oxford ( whose name came from Anglo-Saxon Oxenaford = " ford for oxen ").

They had little or no food, some men were barefooted, and the oxen teams wandered off during the night.

In some regions, little figures carved from cornel wood, representing chickens, oxen, cows, swine, bees, and the like, are also put into the dough.

In the summer there are some areas on the mountain that also have cows and oxen, but they are universally friendly and not very interested in people.

As an example, German American farmers generally preferred oxen rather than horses to pull their plows and The Scots Irish built an economy with some farming but more herding ( of hogs and cattle ).

The Timber Post had its own Poshouer ( manager ), some 12 woodcutters, a blacksmith, wagon maker and 200 oxen plus families.

Use of oxen for plowing survived in some areas of England ( such as the South Downs ) until the early twentieth century.

Oxon Hoath ( sometimes rendered as Oxenholt ) was built by Sir John Culpeper during the reign of King Edward III, as a Royal Park for oxen and deer.

Oxon Hoath in Kent was built more than 600 years ago by Sir John Culpeper, a knight of king Henry V, as a royal park for oxen and deer.

The Code fixed a statutory wage for sowers, ox-drivers, field-labourers, and hire for oxen, asses, etc.

It took them four days as they encompassed 5, 000 soldiers, 2, 000 horses, 500 oxen, possibly 900 cattle, artillery, boats, followers, etc.

The Anglo-Saxon ancestor of ramson was hramsa, and ramson was the Old English plural, the – n being retained as in oxen, children, etc.

Olly olly oxen free ( and variants: ollie ollie umphrey, olly-olly-ee, ally ally in free, ally alley ocean free, etc.