An ox-wagon or bullock wagon is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle). It was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern...
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needed] Aurochs Bullock cart (ox-cart) Bullocky (ox-driver, teamster) Ox (zodiac) Ox in Chinese mythology Ox-wagon (bullock wagon) Oxtail Ridge and furrow...
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A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, or prairie schooner, is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon with a canvas top used for transportation...
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Ossewabrandwag (redirect from Ox-Wagon Sentinels)
[ˈɔsəˌvɑːˌbrantvaχ], from Afrikaans: ossewa, lit. 'ox-wagon' and Afrikaans: brandwag, lit. 'guard, picket, sentinel, sentry' - Ox-wagon Sentinel) was an Afrikaner nationalist...
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wagon, USA 1840s Ox-wagon hauling wool, New Zealand c. 1880 Twenty-mule team, Borax freight, USA 1880s Borax wagons on display c. 1935 Freight wagons...
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Natal. To approach UmGungundlovu via the Italeni defile with ox wagons would force the wagons into an open column, instead of an enclosed laager as successfully...
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Petrus Steyn (section Ox Wagon Wheel Monument)
Afrikaans Language. The Ox Wagon Wheel monument was erected in 1938, during the centenary celebrations of the Great Trek. Here, ox wagon tracks and footprints...
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Bullock cart (redirect from Ox cart)
vehicles may have been ox carts. In Australia, bullock carts were referred to as bullock drays if they had two wheels, and bullock wagons, if they had four...
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transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. Once a small but very rich...
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oneself inside a big laager consisting of 64 ox-wagons made out of decorative granite.: 15 The same number of wagons were used at the Battle of Blood River...
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when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South...
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crippled by the attack). She died aged 62 and was buried in Rouxville. An ox-wagon in the historic 1938 Great Trek Centenary commemoration trek as well as...
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The Attakwaskloof Pass (sometimes Attaquaskloof or Old ox-wagon route) is a mountain pass situated in the Western Cape province of South Africa on the...
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eight-ox plowing teams were once common on the heavy soils of southern England, as were very large ox teams used in 19th century South Africa (see ox-wagon)...
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between two ox wagons Argent, three bezants (i.e. a red shield displaying three gold coins between two diagonal gold lines between two ox-wagons). The crest...
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offices, and an Ox Wagon monument (Kakebeenwa) to commemorate the Ossewa Trek of 1838. The ox wagon monument has an impression of a wagon wheel track made...
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riven (split lengthwise) into four or six sections. The radial members of a wagon wheel were made by carving a spoke (from a log) into their finished shape...
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overran the nomads. The Guangwu Emperor (AD 25-57) introduced an ox-pulled war wagon several stories high with an observation tower, which was deployed...
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behind in Graskop (translated as "grassy hill") whilst looking for an ox wagon route to Delagoa Bay. Today Graskop mainly serves as a tourist town in...
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himself to an anti-British, pro-Nazi organisation called the Ossewabrandwag (Ox-wagon Sentinel), founded in 1938 in celebration of the centenary of the Great...
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This was opposite the farm Maccauvlei.: 18 From 1881, coal was taken by ox-wagon to Kimberley, and by 1882 there was so much development around the mining...
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The unusual name of this little place comes from the days of the first ox wagon trek, when a stone outcrop imposed a sharp detour on travelers. The fishermen's...
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end of a day's journey; Hall 3: Repairing the ox wagons; Hall 4: Building the laager (a camp with the wagons drawn into a circle for protections against...
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management of the family business, which at that time had developed from an ox wagon manufacturing enterprise to that of a general dealer, selling household...
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In each quarter was a symbol of the four provinces of South Africa. An ox wagon representing Transvaal Province, a woman with an anchor representing Cape...
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cliffs give an echo. Through our far-deserted plains With the groan of ox-wagon – Rises the voice of our beloved, Of our country South Africa. We will...
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short documentary film by the Commonwealth Film Unit Bullock cart Oxbow Ox-wagon Chisholm, Alec H. (ed.), The Australian Encyclopaedia, Vol. 2, "Bullock-driving"...
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dagen ([daːɣə(n)]), in Afrikaans it is dae ([dɑːə]). By contrast, wagen or "wagon" in Dutch, pronounced [ˈʋaːɣə(n)], became wa in Afrikaans, ([ˈvɑː]), with...
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efficient way was needed to transport coal to factories other than by ox wagon. The railway from Durban to Johannesburg reached this point on 4 September...
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