lowse
Americanadjective
adjective
verb
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(tr) to release; loose
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(intr) to finish work
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the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
Etymology
Origin of lowse
a Scot variant of loose
Example Sentences
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I'll try, my lord: it's the business o' ilka man, whaur he can, to lowse the weichty birns, an' lat the forfouchten gang free.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
"Ye'll bid him send me a piece of bread,145 Bot and a cup of his best wine; And bid him mind the lady's love That ance did lowse him out o' pyne."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
John Metcalfe has gitten all shorn an' mawn, All but a few standards an' a bit o' lowse corn.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
That Christ gave power to Petir onlie, and not to his successouris, to bynd and lowse within the Kyrk. vi.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
But yae nicht Yon sent Gibbie's sin to find him oot; or maybe the Black Thing in the Hole gat lowse, because it was his hour.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
When we got to Drumquhat," continued Alec, "it was gey far on in the efternune, an' the minister an' my mither lowsed the powny an' stabled it afore gaun ben.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Art thou lowsed from a wife? seek not a wife.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and by and by all the doors opened, and every man's bonds were lowsed.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
And whatsoever ye lowse on earth, shall be lowsed in heaven.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
An' how ye gat him in your thrall, An' brak him out o' house an' hall, While scabs and blotches did him gall Wi' bitter claw, An' lowsed his ill-tongued wicked scaw, Was warst ava?
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
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