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[vicki shaw]

In a Welsh cd of traditional music, there is ten-minute long song of praise
about a beloxed ox.
It is a beautiful song!

Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net


> > 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.
>
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