oxter

Example Sentences

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You may have “The Lives of the Poets” under your oxter, young fellow, but you don’t have them in your head, so go home and read.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

He says, How many Leaders have you under your oxter?

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

And as she said this, she held up her oxter, as if to tak me below't.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

They say he is about to marry the daughter of Leddy Ashton; and let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter, and see you if she winna gie his neck a thraw.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

"There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter," said Mr. Kernan sententiously.

From Dubliners by Joyce, James