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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Man, there's no siller ye could pay wad mak' it worth our while to lowse ye.
From Huntingtower by Buchan, John
"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
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 MacDonald, George
He was a "tight built, streight, beàny mak' iv a fellow, withoot a particle o' lowse flesh aboot him."
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney
Thus go the cries where they do house them, First they come to the grate, and then they go lowse them.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
And whatsoever ye lowse on earth, shall be lowsed in heaven.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
And we entered into a ship of Adramicium, and lowsed from land, appointed to sail by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarcus out of Macedonia, of the country of Thessalia, being with us.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
When the south wind blew, they supposing to obtain their purpose lowsed unto Asson, and sailed past all Candy.
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 Grant, James, archaeologist
But Peter had bade wi' her near forty year, Fine acquaint wi' her weel-soopled jaw, Sae he lowsed his tap button for ease till his wame, Wi' a gant at the wag-at-the-wa'.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David
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