yowe

British  

/ jaʊ /

noun

1. a Scot word for ewe

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Example Sentences

Jakke Carter pryes yowe alle that ye make a gode ende of that ye hane begunnen, and doth wele and ay bettur and bettur: for at the even men heryth the day.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The same wordes I will now sumwhat bend / vse / and turn / vnto the profite of you that be weake / and thus saye vnto yowe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

Mony a frost and mony a thowe, sune makes mony a rotten yowe.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

I ame welle acquaintid with the famely of the Coumptesse of—-; and yowe maie passiblie haue hard what you wished not to haue hard concerninge hir.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

Bobbin-a-Bobbin bent his bow, And shot at a woodcock and kill'd a yowe: The yowe cried ba, and he ran away, But never came back 'till midsummer-day.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various