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ox-stall|ˈɒksstɔːl|
Also 4–5 oxes-, 8 Sc. owsen-staw.
A stall or stable for oxen.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 342 She was born and fed in rudenesse As in a cote, or in an Oxe [v. rr. oxes, oxsis, ox] Stalle. 1492Ryman Poems xxxii. 4 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXIX. 199 A childe they founde In an oxe stalle in raggis wounde. 1530Palsgr. 250/2 Oxestale, creche. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. v. 194 Liu'd he now, he should lack, Spight of his farming Oxe-stawles. Ibid. iii. Proem. 210 To purge this Augean oxstall from foule sinne. 1776Herd's Sc. Songs II. 146 She sought it in the owsen-staw. |