owsen

“Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low — hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I will allow that ilk parochine, on an average, employs fifty pleughs, whilk is a great proportion in sic miserable soil as thae creatures hae to labour, and that there may be pasture enough for pleugh-horses, and owsen, and forty or fifty cows; now, to take care

Rob Roy 2005

And owsen frae the furrowed field return sae dowf and weary o,

The Lea Rig 1998

He has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine,

Song-Auld Rob Morris 1909

He has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine, [gold, oxen]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

` ` Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low --- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

"Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low -- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont."

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Auld Davie is ca'ing it e'en now, and ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak tent ye dinna o'erdrive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang betweeu the stilts.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Auld Davie is ca'ing it e'en now, and ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak tent ye dinna o'erdrive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang betweeu the stilts.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

He has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine,

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777