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.

Each was the best specimen of its kind, cleansed, clad in sacrificial regalia and garlanded ; the horns of oxen might be gilded.

Rather than any fear that the camp might be attacked, his main concern was managing the huge number of wagons and oxen required to support his forward advance.

It tells how Jonathan and his armor-bearer crossed over during the night ‘ to the Philistines ’ garrison ’ on the other side, and how they passed two sharp rocks: ‘ there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh .’ They clambered up the cliff and overpowered the garrison ‘ within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plough .’ The main body of the enemy awakened by the mêlée thought they were surrounded by Saul ’ s troops and ‘ melted away and they went on beating down one another .’

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

Zebu are used as draught oxen, as dairy cattle and as beef cattle, as well as for byproducts such as hides and dung for fuel and manure.

There are carnival games and rides, as well as patron-submitted exhibits and art works, a petting zoo, contests, oxen pulls, a pancake breakfast held by the Sterling Chocksett Club, live music performance, a wide array of food options, and the popular hot air balloon rides.

Union Furnace and its forge produced cannon balls for the Revolutionary War and shoes for horses and oxen, as well as farm implements.

As the farming activities gave very little, the iron manufacturing became even more attractive to the farmers, as well as trade with oxen.

The oxen were sold in Bergslagen as well as Dalarna, where the skin of the oxen were important items in the mines.

On the wall there was a painting of two oxen fighting, one of which was falling into a well.

The chronicler John of Worcester relates under the year 1099 that St. Michael's Mount was located five or six miles ( 10 km ) from the sea, enclosed in a thick wood, but that on the third day of the nones of November the sea overflowed the land, destroying many towns and drowning many people as well as innumerable oxen and sheep ; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records under the date 11 November 1099, " The sea-flood sprung up to such a height, and did so much harm, as no man remembered that it ever did before ".

They are well received as a show of strength between farmers who believe that their oxen, horses or tractors are the strongest in terms of pulling weight.

Renovations began in 2001 which nearly doubled the square footage to and added 12 oxen to support the baptismal font, a waiting room for those not able to enter the temple, a matron and brides room, as well as an office for the temple president.

At the first Assyrian conquest in the 870s BCE, the victors carried away from Kinalua silver and gold, 100 talents of tin, essential for making bronze, and 100 talents of iron ,, 1000 oxen and 10, 000 sheep, linen robes and decorated couches and beds of boxwood, as well as " 10 female singers, the king's brother's daughter with a rich dowry, a large female monkey and ducks ".

It consisted of thousands of stations placed along the main roads ; these had to supply fresh horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen, as well as carts, food, fodder, and accommodation .” Thus, there was no “ department of postal service ” with employees paid by the emperor.

Civilians, including children, aided in the effort as well, as " Carts drawn by oxen, water buffalo, and cows jammed the roads bringing food, provisions, ammunition, and volunteers from the vicinity " of Yerevan.

In 1972, Bagnolo 2 was discovered, a similar stele with 16 engravings, showing the same daggers and axes, and a Sun, as well as a figure of a dog, and a ploughman with a team of two oxen, and patterns interpreted as necklaces and pendants.

At the three points along the journey that the oxen stopped, a spring arose ( though only the well at Bawburgh can now be found ).

Females can also be trained as oxen, but as well as being smaller, they are often more valued for producing calves and milk.

Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

For three days, their stolid oxen had plodded up a blazing valley as flat and featureless as a dead sea.

Ben Prime extended his high-stepped stride until he could lay his goad across the noses of the oxen.

And goaded the oxen as he yelled.

Only the heavy bones of the oxen kept them anchored.

Of all their worldly belongings, next to the oxen and his gun, the seed grain had been the most treasured.

It fell, February 6, 1827, carrying with it a horse and wagon, two men and four oxen.

The horse and men were saved, but the oxen drowned.

"... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen.

Caribou, musk oxen, deer, moose, whale and other types of game were eaten roasted or preserved.

Also facing Ramillies Marlborough placed a powerful battery of thirty 24-pounders, dragged into position by a team of oxen ; further batteries were positioned overlooking the Petite Gheete.

* Jeremiah 27-28 The wearing of an oxen yoke and its subsequent breaking by a fellow prophet, Hananiah.

All of Job's possessions are destroyed: 500 yoke of oxen and 500 donkeys carried off by Sabeans ; 7, 000 sheep burned up by ' The fire of God which fell from the sky '; 3, 000 camels stolen by the Chaldeans ; and the house of the firstborn destroyed by a mighty wind, killing Job's ten children.

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.

Oxen have been long used for farming and Chinese governments have frequently strictly prohibited the slaughter of oxen for food.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

The statues commemorate their feat of pulling their mother's cart several miles to the Sanctuary of Hera in the absence of oxen.

Two oxen are slaughtered and cut into pieces ; the pieces are laid on the wood.

In 1901, Takamine successfully isolated and purified the hormone from the adrenal glands of sheep and oxen.

The system of long furrows arose because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult.

405, 602 ) and working teams of oxen and mules ( ll.

Yet another episode of his female affairs that stands out was when he carried away the oxen of Geryones, he also visited the country of the Scythians.

First, Jason had to plow a field with fire-breathing oxen, the Khalkotauroi, that he had to yoke himself.