Usually means: Old Scots word meaning "over."
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. owre: Merriam-Webster
  2. owre: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Owre, owre: Wordnik
  4. owre: Wiktionary
  5. Owre, owre: Dictionary.com
  6. Owre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. owre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Owre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. owre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. owre: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Owre: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Owre)

noun:  Obsolete form of hour. [(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).]
noun:  Obsolete form of oar. [A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.]
noun:  Obsolete form of ore. [Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.]
noun:  Obsolete form of our.

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