yowe

British  

/ jaʊ /

noun

1. a Scot word for ewe

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Example Sentences

A! blynd folk, fulle off all foly, Had yhe wmbethowcht14 yowe inkkyrly15 Quhat peryle to yowe mycht appere, Yhe had noucht wroucht on this manèr.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf, And thretty gude shillin’s and three; A vera gude tocher, a cotter-man’s dochter, The lass wi’ the bonnie black e’e.

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 Burns, Robert

Therfor i would aduyse yowe as yowe tender youer lyf to deuyse some exscuse to shift of youer attendance at this parleament.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an oration, and the new king, speaking again, offered his thanks in English to "God, and yowe Spirituel and Temporel, and alle the Astates of the lond."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf, And thretty gude shillin's and three; A vera gude tocher, a cotter-man's dochter, The lass wi' the bonie black e'e.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert