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English
Etymology
Obsolete forms.
Noun
owre (plural owres)
- Obsolete form of hour.
- Obsolete form of oar.
- Obsolete form of ore.
- Obsolete form of our.
Anagrams
Middle English
Determiner
owre
- Alternative form of oure
Scots
Adverb
owre (comparative mair owre, superlative maist owre)
- Over.
1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Determiner
owre
- Alternative form of oor
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 9-10:Wi Irishmen owre generale hopes be ee-bond——- With Irishmen our common hopes are inseparably bound up——
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116