oxter

With a Bible under his oxter, and a 'bowet' new lit in his right hand, he accompanied me swiftly up the street.

He will hear a pluff o' pouther gang blaff at his oxter some fine day, that he'll be the waur o'!

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

A friendly hand gripped him below the oxter, and, peering up, he discerned the Minister.

Yet he could get a' the wives he wants, by just coming doon like a tod aff the hill, and takin' yin below his oxter.

He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then wedges it tight in his oxter.

Then Paruig pushed the bag further into his oxter, and the tune changed.

O'Grady drank a couple of naggins, put the pipes under his oxter (arm-pit) and said, "I'm ready to go with ye now."

With the bell carefully tucked under his oxter he gave forth his news in a rasping voice that broke now and again into a squeal.

So Tammy and I had to oxter her out between us, and deliver the howdie herself—safe in at her own door.