Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drives oxen with a goad; an ox-driver.
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Examples
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Auld Davie is ca'ing it e'en now, and ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak tent ye dinna o'erdrive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang betweeu the stilts.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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Auld Davie is ca'ing it e'en now, and ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak tent ye dinna o'erdrive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang betweeu the stilts.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Auld Davie is ca’ing it e’en now, and ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak tent ye dinna o’erdrive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang betweeu the stilts.
Old Mortality 2004
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