Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlers
Literary usage of Outlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on by Robert Burns, James Currie (1835)
"outlers, cattle not housed. Owre, over; too. Ou re-hip- a way of fetching a blow
with the bammer over the arm. P. PACK, intimate, familiar; twelve stone of ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"North. OUTLAY. Expenditure. Var. dial. OUTLER. An animal not housed. Nor/A.
outlers. Out-standing debts. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"outlers, cattle left out at night in the fields, for want of byres or folds to
shelter them. Amang the brackens on the brae, Between her an' the moon, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"outlers, cattle left out at night in the fields, for want of byres or folds to
shelter them. Amang the brackens on the brae, Between her an' the moon, ..."
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