单词 | oxter |
释义 | oxtern. Chiefly English regional (northern), Scottish, Irish English, and Manx English. The armpit; (also more generally) the underside of the upper arm; the fold of the arm when bent against the body. Also: the armhole of a coat, jacket, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > armpit armholea1325 armpita1333 oxterc1420 okselle1489 asselea1500 wings1586 axilla1616 enmontery1655 underarm1933 pit1955 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > inner side of oxterc1420 c1420 in C. Innes Liber S. Marie de Calchou (1846) II. 449 The hart has his clengyng plas vnder the armys that is in the hole of the oxteris. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 39 His fa sum be the oxtar ledis. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) II. 199 With hate eggis bound under hir oxtaris. 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. v. xii. sig. N3v There is a sort of it that appeareth under the oxter and jawes. a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 247 Johne Brand, minister,..having on his gowne and a byble under his oxstare. 1630 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 145 Haifing ane katt under his okister. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 35 An Oxter: an Armpit, Axilla. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 48 This will keep it at least as warm as under your Arm-pit, or Ockster, (as the Scots call it). 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) iv. 28 Na, na, mither an' the wean wad suck our Maggy, I sud take it hame in my oxter. 1842 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 76 See there be gusset of good mail, hooked firmly to the corslet-rim and upper edge of the brassards, to guard the oxter from arrow-shot or thrust of some sharp weapon when the right arm is raised. 1852 A. Robb Poems & Songs Sc. Dial. 115 Grip me in your oxter. 1882 T. Mair John o' Arnha's Latterday Exploits 67 His left hand i' the oxter o' His waistcoat was enthoombed. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 206 Many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter. 1964 Listener 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. 1991 R. A. Jamieson Day at Office 85 Togher came in to the kitchen..buttoning the cuffs of a shirt which was ripped at one oxter. Compounds oxter-plate n. Shipbuilding (now rare) a supporting plate riveted to the stern from immediately below or on the transom, esp. on wooden vessels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > rear part of vessel > [noun] > parts supporting stern-post crutch1769 heel knee1830 stern-knee1846 sternson1846 sternson-knee1849 clutch1850 oxter-plate1884 1884 Times I Jan. 12/1 A great proportion of vessels reported as ‘foundered and missing’ are undoubtedly lost by fire, by collision,..by the giving way of steering gear, by oxter plates being made rectangular and cracking at the corners, [etc.]. 1904 A. C. Holms Pract. Shipbuilding I. 526 The oxter plates are those which take the sternpost, immediately below, or partly on, the transom. 1927 G. F. Leechman Theory & Pract. Steering 51 The rotary current applies considerable pressure upon the hull in the vicinity of the oxter plate. 1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words 244 Oxter plate, specially-shaped plate where side-plating ends in way of after deadwood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oxterv. Chiefly English regional (northern), Scottish, and Irish English. transitive. To support by the arm, walk arm in arm with; to take or carry under the arm; to embrace, put one's arm around. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with > walk arm-in-arm with arma1625 oxtera1796 the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person: keep from falling > by the arm lend1598 support1604 oxtera1796 the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > hold under the arm oxter1894 a1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum (1803) VI. 585 The Priest he was oxter'd, the Clerk he was carried. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 46 Lads oxter lasses without fear, Or dance like wud. a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) i. 67 Some oxtering pocks o' silken ware, Some lapfus hov't like kechan. a1850 R. Gilfillan Poems & Songs (1851) 21 I couldna gang by her for shame, I couldna but speak, else be saucy, Sae I had to oxter her hame, An' buy a silk snood to the lassie. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 519 When this master of minstrelsy oxtered his blether. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 58 Will whispered Let's sleep together. So then they did, oxtering one the other till they were real warm. 1988 J. Black Yellow Wednesday 39 They became so helpless they slid off their seats on to the floor and a few of us had to oxter them out to the vestibule to recover. 2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go xiii. 98 Cairried. Oxtered. Stretchered oot on the shooders o an employee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1420v.a1796 |
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