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- noun Plural form of
oxter .
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Examples
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Arms hooked him by the oxters and under his knees.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Arms hooked him by the oxters and under his knees.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Arms hooked him by the oxters and under his knees.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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In a rush of happiness, she picked up her little girl under the oxters, swinging her around and around.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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They are in Calman, up to their oxters even higher.
Cameron's folly Jeff 2009
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I had spotted them in the distance five minutes back, their top hats and big buttons, and ever since I had been looking for a way off the road, one that didn't involve me running across a field and getting mucked up to the oxters.
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They are up to their oxters in with the labour party.
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His lips were dry, but the rest of him was heavily bedewed; he could feel sweat pooling in the creases of his neck, soaking the cambric of his shirt beneath his oxters.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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For he's up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France
No Man's Land (3) 1997
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He had heard stories of snowfalls that lay six feet deep, valleys where a man might sink to his oxters, and ice that froze so thick on the creeks that a bear could walk across.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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