owre

English

Etymology

Obsolete forms.

Noun

owre (plural owres)

1. Obsolete form of hour.
2. Obsolete form of oar.
3. Obsolete form of ore.
4. Obsolete form of our.

Anagrams

• wore, Rowe, Ower, Wroe, wero, ower, WORE

Middle English

Determiner

owre

1. Alternative form of oure

Scots

Adverb

owre (comparative mair owre, superlative maist owre)

1. 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!

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Yola

Determiner

owre

1. 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