The wooden ox (木牛流馬，lit. wooden ox flowing horse) was created by Zhuge Liang while he served Shu-Han. It was a thought to be either
- a mechanical, walking replica of an ox whose main purpose was to carry supplies such as grain to an army that was running low on supplies
or
- a sort of wheelbarrow that had 2 booms on which it was pulled (this was later reversed with the "gliding horse").
Famous quotes containing the word wooden:
“It’s the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)