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

As for Peter, who had been getting over his trouble, he saw now for the first time what he had lost, and he carried Betsy's dear letter in his oxter pocket and was inconsolable.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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)

An' he stands wi' his thooms i' the oxter holes o' his weyscot, an' lauchs, an' says, "Tyuch; naething ava; no wirth speakin' aboot," when I tell them hoo big I am aboot it.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.