[Sca-cooks] Recent Test

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Feb 11 21:32:22 PST 2004


> Oxen, also.  But an Ox is not castrated.  A steer is.

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition says "...an 
adult castrated male domestic ox".

Oxen were used to pull wagons, in the Middle Ages and in America. I 
don't think I would want an uncastrated bull hitched to *my* wagon.

Stefan
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