wab
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ithers declare 'at he's got a wab o' claith, and hes a new pair made in Muirtown aince in the twa year maybe, and keeps them in the garden till the new look wears aft.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian
Ye're quite right, madam; a rotten-hearted wab is just like a rotten-hearted man—they baith come to an ill end.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
Ye're cawking the claith ere the wab be in the loom.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Young Wellwood 'll gie her silks and satins by the wab, and siller in gowpens.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Thomas Bertram, your loom is at a discount, but many's the happy day I have watched you and your shuttle, and the interweaving treadles, and all the mysteries of setting the "wab."
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John
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