owse

American  

[aus] / aʊs /

noun

Scot. and North England.

• owsen
  plural

1. ox.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• owsen
  plural

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Example Sentences

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owse owsen

God ye good-morn, Goff; I's e'en fain You'll put my owse out o' his pain.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

I had sax owsen in a pleugh, They drew a’ weel eneugh, I sell’d them a’ just ane by ane; Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

‘O, turn thee, turn thee, Willie Ha’, O, turn thee, man, and fight wi’ me; When ye come to Troughend again, A yoke o’ owsen I’ll gie thee.’

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

"The nut-brown bride has owsen, brither,   The nut-brown bride has kye; I wad hae you marry the nut-brown bride,   And cast fair Annet by."

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

Up then and spake the brave Whitefoord,   As he sat by the Bishop's knee, ‘Twenty white owsen, my gude lord,   If ye'll grant Hughie the Græme to me.’

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

Sheep will die in cots, mither, And owsen die in byre;50 And what's this warld's wealth to me, An I get na my heart's desire?

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

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