oxter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oxter
1490–1500; akin to Old English ōcusta armpit, Old Norse ( h ) ōstr throat
Example Sentences
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You may have “The Lives of the Poets” under your oxter, young fellow, but you don’t have them in your head, so go home and read.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
He says, How many Leaders have you under your oxter?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
With a Bible under his oxter, and a 'bowet' new lit in his right hand, he accompanied me swiftly up the street.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
They say he is about to marry the daughter of Leddy Ashton; and let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter, and see you if she winna gie his neck a thraw.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
As for Peter, who had been getting over his trouble, he saw now for the first time what he had lost, and he carried Betsy's dear letter in his oxter pocket and was inconsolable.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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