/oks"boh'/ , n.
1. a U-shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
2. Physical Geog. , Geol.
a. a bow-shaped bend in a river, or the land embraced by it.
b. Also called oxbow lake . a bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river.
[ 1325-75; ME; see OX, BOW 2 ]