[Sca-cooks] Cow harness
Antonia Calvo
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue Nov 10 14:42:47 PST 2009
Judith Epstein wrote:
> I thought cows and their boyfriends (oxen, bulls, same word) were on
> yokes, and draft horses were on halters. No?
No, no, and no.
oxen != bulls
A *yoke* is a wooden beam which is used between a pair of oxen in
harness to allow them to pull a load. A halter is a piece of headgear
that allows animals to be led, similar to a bridle but with no bit.
Horses doing heavy work such as ploughing have harnesses with full collars.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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