Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxtered
Literary usage of Oxtered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"When this master of minstrelsy oxtered his blether "—that is, put the bladder of
his pipes under his arm.—Northumberland Minstrels' Budget. ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and j accuracy of my accounts, are always of two the nature of that evidence :
if it is not competent in law when it romes to be oxtered, a thousand ..."
3. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New-York: Began the 9th by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1861)
"... Greek and Mathematicks without any Amendments Which report on the Question
being put was agreed to and approved of oxtered, that the said Bill be read ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1903)
"Then the hanger-on aforesaid, who related the instructive apologue with some
humour, told how he had " oxtered " Donald Gracie to his own school door, ..."
5. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"When this master of minstrelsy oxtered his blither." Northern Minstrels' Budget.
BLETHER-BREEKS, a boasting, bragging fellow talking, not doing. ..."
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