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
Ye 'ill better come awa hame,' and sall, if a' hed kent what wes tae happen, a' wud hae taken him aff below ma oxter.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
He got his umberell in his oxter, an' the bag in his hand, an' then he fand roond juist to see if there was naething else he had forgotten.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
A barth of new heather He bore on his shoulder, And a bundle of whitlow-grass Under his oxter.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
