OUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ouse mean? 

• OUSE (noun)
  The noun OUSE has 1 sense:

1. a river in northeastern England that flows generally southeastward to join the Trent River and form the Humber

  Familiarity information: OUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in northeastern England that flows generally southeastward to join the Trent River and form the Humber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ouse; Ouse River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Ouse" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

It’s Bill Warr, landlord of the One Ton public-’ouse, Jermyn Street, and the gamest man upon the list.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was the old party what engaged me a-waitin' in the 'ouse at Purfleet. He 'elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“The ouse that I am stopping at—a sort of a private hotel and boarding ouse, Master Copperfield, near the New River ed—will have gone to bed these two hours.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It’s a ’orse to a ’en in every sportin’ ’ouse and boozin’ ken from ’ere to Stepney.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a dusty old 'ouse, too, though nothin' to the dustiness of the 'ouse we tooked the bloomin' boxes from.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Oh, really, Master Copperfield, he rejoined—I beg your pardon, Mister Copperfield, but the other comes so natural, I don't like that you should put a constraint upon yourself to ask a numble person like me to your ouse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You know that ’e ain’t to be overmuch depended on at any time, and that ’e ’ad a grudge against your man ’cause ’e laid ’im out in the coach-’ouse.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard a man by the name of Bloxam say four nights ago in the 'Are an' 'Ounds, in Pincher's Alley, as 'ow he an' his mate 'ad 'ad a rare dusty job in a old 'ouse at Purfect. There ain't a-many such jobs as this 'ere, an'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was for ever having my Agnes backwards and forwards at her ouse, and she was for ever being a friend to you, Master Copperfield; but I was too far beneath her, myself, to be noticed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So the King ’e sent one of his genelmen down to Figg and he said to him: ‘’Ere’s a cove vot cracks a bone every time ’e lets vly, and it’ll be little credit to the Lunnon boys if they lets ’im get avay vithout a vacking.’ So Figg he ups, and he says, ‘I do not know, master, but he may break one of ’is countrymen’s jawbones vid ’is vist, but I’ll bring ’im a Cockney lad and ’e shall not be able to break ’is jawbone with a sledge ’ammer.’ I was with Figg in Slaughter’s coffee-’ouse, as then vas, ven ’e says this to the King’s genelman, and I goes so, I does!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)