ˈoutler Sc. and north. dial.
[perh. from outlier.]
An animal that is not housed during the night or winter; fig. a person out of work or out of office. Also attrib.
| 1785 Burns Halloween xxvi, The Deil, or else an outler Quey, Gat up an' gae a croon. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 160 At length the Outlers grew sae mad Against ilk Inler purse-proud blade. 1826 Graham Moorland Dial. 8 (E.D.D.) Sin last our outler nowt was fother'd. |