Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The water-cow.
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Examples
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There are no imposing surroundings, no glamor of attendance, only Roosevelt, strong as a water-ox in a rice-field, smiling, all on the surface, ready to fight for his friend or his country.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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Some have supposed this to be an Egyptian word meaning a "water-ox."
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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"Behemoth" seems to be the Egyptian Pehemout, "water-ox," Hebraized, so-called as being like an ox, whence the Italian bombarino. with thee -- as I made thyself.
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