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oxter, n. Sc., Irish, and north. dial.|ˈɒkstə(r)|
Also 6, 9 ox(s)tar(e, 6–7 oxster, 7–8 ockster.
[A modified or extended form from OE. óxta, óhsta, from same stem as OE. óxn:—*óhsna = OHG. uohsana and uochasa, ôchasa, MHG. uohse, uehse; stem ôks-, ôhs-, whence also Du. oksel (okselle):—OLG. *ôksla, ôhsla; also, with weak grade aks-, ahs-, OHG. ahsala, Ger. achsel; so L. axilla, dim. of *axula, and OIr. oxal; all in the same or an allied sense.]
a. The armpit.
15..Sir A. Barton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 73 He shoote hime in at the left oxtere, The arrowe quiett throughe harte. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 81 There is a sort of it that appeareth under the oxter and jawes. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 145 Being sent for to the castell, [he] went up with his Bible under his ockster, affirming that would plead for him. 1674Ray N.C. Words 35 An Oxter: an Armpit, Axilla. a1745Swift Direct. Servants, Footman, This will keep it at least as warm as under your arm-pit or ockster, as the Scots call it. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxiv, Let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter. 1881R. Buchanan God & Man III. 214 Johnstone..had the telescope under his oxter. 1901G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville ii. 304 But many felt that Byron shewed bad taste In taking old Ned Skene upon his back, And, with Bob Mellish tucked beneath his oxter, Sprinting a hundred yards to show the crowd The perfect pink of his condition. 1914Joyce Dubliners 206 Many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter. 1932Auden Orators ii. 70 The madman keeper crawls through brushwood, Axe under oxter. 1956H. Sutherland Irish Journey iii. 25 Each carrying a loaf under his ‘oxster’. 1964Listener 19 Mar. 494/3 Alan Whicker..stood..on that bubbling pitch lake of Trinidad..and let us hear a calypso from a man who'd fallen into it up to his oxters. 1977D. Bagley Enemy ix. 63 Benson's carrying a gun in his oxter. 1978Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 15/1 [Durham] Oxter, armpit.
b. More loosely, The under side or inside of the upper arm.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiii. 17 His fa sum by the oxstar leidis. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. xvii, Twa sturdy chiels, Be 's oxter and be 's coller, Held up..The liquid logic scholar. 17..― Jenny Nettles i, Bag and baggage on her back, And a baby in her oxter. 1852A. Robb Poems & Songs 115 Grip me in your oxter. 1893Stevenson Catriona xi. 125, I would be blythe to have you at my oxter.
c. Comb. oxter-plate (see quot. 1904).
1885H. Paasch From Keel to Truck 46 Plate,..oxter—Tôle de voûte contre l'étambot. Achselgrube-Platte. 1904A. C. Holms Pract. Shipbuilding I. 526 The oxter plates are those which take the sternpost, immediately below, or partly on, the transom. 1927G. F. Leechman Theory & Pract. Steering 51 The rotary current applies considerable pressure upon the hull in the vicinity of the oxter plate. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 511/1 Oxter plate, a shell plate riveted to the stern frame in way of the rudderpost head.
Hence ˈoxter v. trans., to support by the arm, walk arm in arm with; to take or carry under the arm; to fold the arm round.
1780J. Mayne Siller Gun ii, Lads oxter lasses without fear, Or dance like wud. c1793Burns Meg o' the Mill, The Priest he was oxter'd, the Clerk he was carried. 1894Northumbld. Minstrel's Budget in Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., When this master of minstrelsy oxtered his blether. |