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Definition of Owlers
1. owler [n] - See also: owler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Owlers
Literary usage of Owlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Military Forces of the Crown: Their Administration and Government by Charles Mathew Clode (1869)
"... there to bo aiding and assisting to the Civil Magistrates and Officers of the
Revenue in preventing the owlers and Smugglers from Running of Goods ..."
2. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1888)
"... provisions and the manner in which they were enforced against the owlers,8 as
the wool smugglers were termed, recall to mind the old 1 11 & 12 Will. ..."
3. Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556-[1728]: Preserved in Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Treasury, Joseph Redington (1874)
"He was fair to the owlers, for after he had cast them, he let them owl and ...
There would be more owlers when Captain Baker had done than when he began. ..."
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