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
A friendly hand gripped him below the oxter, and, peering up, he discerned the Minister.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
"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
But afore ye hae time to turn roon' an' get at yer ain wark, the craitur'll be oot again an' awa' up to the hill wi' a buik aneath his oxter.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
