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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Ox of the Deluge.
 
The Irish name for a great black deer, probably the Megace’ros Hiber nicus, or Irish elk, now extinct.   1
 


 Ox-eye.Oxford. 

 
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