oxter

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.

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

A barth of new heather He bore on his shoulder, And a bundle of whitlow-grass Under his oxter.

It wasna very lang until I drew up; and, though she didna gie me ony great encouragement at first, yet, in a week or twa, after the ice was fairly broken, she became remarkably ceevil, and gied me her oxter on a Sunday.

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