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)
A barth of new heather He bore on his shoulder, And a bundle of whitlow-grass Under his oxter.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
By your way of it, you're Balfour of the Shaws; but for what I ken you may be Balfour of the Deevil's oxter.
