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owse

American  
[ous] / aʊs /

noun

Scot. and North England.

plural

owsen

  1. ox.

Example Sentences

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God ye good-morn, Goff; I's e'en fain You'll put my owse out o' his pain.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William

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