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In Indonesia, bullock carts are used in the rural parts of the country for transporting goods and people, but horse carts are more common. A bullock cart driver is known as a bajingan in Indonesian. In Javanese, the term bajingan holds dual meanings. While commonly used as a colloquial term for a scoundrel or rogue, it also denotes an oxcart ...
The bullock team driver was called a bullocky, bullock puncher or teamster. Many Australian country towns owe their origin to the bullock teams, having grown from a store or shanty where teams rested or crossed a stream. These shanties were spaced at about 12-mile (19 km) intervals, which was the usual distance for a team to travel in a day. [5]
Zebu oxen in Mumbai, India Ploughing with Oxen by George H. Harvey, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1881 Oxen used for plowing, 2013 Boy on an ox-drawn cart in Niger Ox skull. An ox (pl.: oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), [1] is a large bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.
Bullock cart with a yoke Withers yoke. A yoke is a wooden beam used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, as oxen usually do; some yokes are fitted to individual animals. There are several types of yoke, used in different cultures, and for different types of oxen.
Bullock team hauling wool on a dray, Walcha, New South Wales Yoking up the leaders of a bullock team. A colour postcard printed of a team of 26 bullocks carting a large load of wool ca. 1909. A bullock team at Farrell Flat, South Australia in 1911. A bullocky is an Australian English term for the driver of a bullock team. The American term is ...
"Bullocky" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. [1]It was originally published in The Bulletin on 27 September 1944, [2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Ponies and donkeys are often used to pull carts and small wagons. Historically, ponies were commonly used in mining to pull ore carts. Dogs are used for pulling light carts or, particularly, sleds (e.g. sled dogs such as huskies) for both recreation and working purposes. Goats also can perform light harness work in front of carts.
For clarity in this discussion: a wagon has four wheels, a cart has two wheels, oxen are draught cattle, usually adult castrated males, which are known as bullocks in Australia and New Zealand ("bullock" often has a different meaning elsewhere – in Britain it usually means a young castrated male reared for beef, in America it means a young ...