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26 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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oxter
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synonyms: axilla ???
tags: [anatomy] [ireland] [scotland]
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And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past,...
James Joyce. Ulysses
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"You rub your oxter over the beast’s nose a few times, to give him your scent and get him accustomed to you, so he won’t be nervous of ye.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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It was in November; and the cold glimmering sun sank behind the Pentlands. The trees had been shorn of their frail leaves, and the misty night was closing fast in upon the dull and short day; but the candles glittered at the shop windows, and leery-light-the-lamps was brushing about with his ladder in his oxter, and bleezing flamboy sparking out behind him.
David Macbeth Moir. The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself. (1845)
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“There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter,” said Mr Kernan sententiously. “The old system was the best: plain honest education. None of your modern trumpery....”
James Joyce. Dubliners
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