Definitions
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- n. Oxen; plural form of ox.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A dialectal form of oxen.
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Examples
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“Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low — hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont.”
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I will allow that ilk parochine, on an average, employs fifty pleughs, whilk is a great proportion in sic miserable soil as thae creatures hae to labour, and that there may be pasture enough for pleugh-horses, and owsen, and forty or fifty cows; now, to take care
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And owsen frae the furrowed field return sae dowf and weary o,
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He has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine,
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He has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine, [gold, oxen]
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` ` Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low --- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont. ''
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"Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low -- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont."
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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.
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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.
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