ox-wagon, noun
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- EnglishShow more Figurative use of general English.
A heavy pioneer wagon drawn by oxen; used allusively as a symbol of conservative Afrikaner values and aspirations, representing conservatism and retrogressive thinking; ossewa sense 2 b. Also attributive.
1960 C. Hooper Brief Authority 25For most of my life I had dreaded the vacuous, depopulated, waste regions of South Africa, with their dreary little dorps, their occasional windmills, their dusty aridity, their ox-wagon mentality.
1981 P. Qoboza in Rand Daily Mail 21 July 13There is one national characteristic we refuse to abandon. It is the mentality of the oxwagon. The oxwagon played a significant role in this nation. It helped the founding fathers of the nation, both black and white, to open up new frontiers and visions...But in an age where spaceships and computers are zooming through space, the oxwagon has left us a terrible legacy. It has conditioned the minds of so many people, and has kept captive their spirit of adventure. We need to relegate the oxwagons to the age they belonged to.
A heavy pioneer wagon drawn by oxen; used allusively as a symbol of conservative Afrikaner values and aspirations, representing conservatism and retrogressive thinking; ossewa sense 2 b. Also attributive.
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