A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.
A closely looping stream meander or lake resembling the U-shaped frame embracing an ox's neck, having an extreme curvature such that only a neck of land is left between two parts of land.
a loop formed by a horseshoe-shaped bend in a river.
_ Crescent shaped bend in the river.
the land inside an oxbow bend in a river
a U-shaped curve in a stream
a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox
a body of standing water resulting from the cutoff of a river channel, in this case the Little Patuxent River
a lake that at one point was part of the riverbed but that has since been cut off from the main body by erosion
The area resulting from the meandering of a river or stream.
A looping river bend that is cut off from the main river flow by processes of meandering, typically becoming a lake.[ J K U V X Y Z
A broad, curving arc in a stream or river. As this curve develops, it may become so extreme that the beginning and end of the oxbow join, creating a shortcut in the channel. Over time, the new channel deposits sediment that completely cut off the oxbow, leaving a C-shaped oxbow lake.
An abandoned meander in a river or stream, caused by neck cutoff. Used to describe the U-shaped bend in the river or the land within such a bend of a river.
An abandoned stream channel bend that is now a lake (or a lake filled in by a peatland) in the shape of a crescent.
a U shaped bend in a river or stream.
wetland area originally formed by a closely looping U-shaped stream meander; it is no longer connected to the main stream